Tuesday, 25 July 2017

Yaraka

We came here in 2015 .... great little place and only $3.00 a day ... The road from Blackall to Yaraka is pretty much all sealed .... a change from 2015

Yaraka Promo ... click on this link: Here



Having a coffee on the way to Yaraka






Yaraka was the end of the line ... the last train ran in 2005


The Yaraka Pub take's people up to Mount Slowcombe to see the sunset .... only charge is a donation to the Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS)


View from Mount Slowcombe






Telstra has all it's equipment on Mount Slowcombe .... Yaraka now has brilliant mobile and internet services 


























The township of Yaraka from Mount Slowcombe








On the left is Barefoot Bill and on the right is Gerry ...  Mrs Publican ... Barefoot Bill is a real character lives in Coffin Bay in South Australia but heads north in April every year to escape the cold and goes home in September ... and like his name walks barefoot


Barefoot Bill with Shorty ..... Shorty got Bill to sign our Pub Book ..... he was in one of the pictures which was taken in 2016 at the Yaraka Pub


Gerry having a drink with us


Yaraka Railway Station .... now a museum


The bottom of Mount Slowcombe


10% on the way up


12% on the way down ?????



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