Yaraka - QLD

This is an interesting place at the end of the Blackall and Yaraka Branch Railway Line - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackall_and_Yaraka_Branch_Railways - There is a good camping area around the local swimming pool with a good amenities block. The local pub has good meals. The publican conducts tours up Mt Slocombe when he has a few passengers for sunset, he has good knowledge of the area and he gives a good talk just before sunset. The RFDS holds a clinic there each fortnight (ring the pub to see when it is due.) The pub can supply a mud map to get to Magee's Shanty and the proposed town of Welford (which was intended to be the end of the line.) Welford was pegged out and that was as far as it was developed, most of the pegs still exist in the town area. It is on a good road from Windorah to Blackall, gravel to the west and bitumen to the east. It's a good route for those coming in through Birdsville and heading for the Capricorn region.