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CHARLOTTE PLAINS STATION
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There is actually not a place in Australia called Charlotte Plains. Nevertheless, I have created a separate page as this a well known Cattle & Sheep Station in outback Queensland. It is also well known for it's Artesian Hot Springs. We enjoyed our stay here.
We stayed at the community bore campsite area without power which was a good choice. You can also stay at the Shearers camp site which is powered, but that is an additional 10k's from the bore campsite which is where the action is.
Every night the fire is lit and we all enjoyed good company and especially with a nice fella from the Netherlands who ran the Bar. The only downside is that you cannot bring BYO to the fire place when the Bar is open. The drinks at the Bar are top dollar expensive.
You do have the option however to make your own fire in the firepits provided and collect as much wood as you require from the surrounding bush. The rubbish dump is located 1 k from the campsite and we were able to not only dump our bag of rubbish each morning, but also to collect our fire wood. Subsequently, hubby got our fire cranking every evening and morning. As soon as the sun goes down, it gets cold here.
However, there is the Artisian Spa water. Mmmm, just perfect at 42C. And we felt so clean after each dip. I absolutely loved this, being the spa queen. You could fill any of the baths available or just go in the pool.
This was one of my most favourite places on our big lap. In fact we will be back. I'd love to bring the kids here.
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DRIVING TO CHARLOTTE PLAINS
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Charlotte Plains is on the road from Cunnamulla to St George. This road has good bits and bad bits. It goes from nice bitumen, narrows to bumpy bitumen that feels like you are in a boat navigating huge swell, and back to the nice bitumen again.
We saw plenty of wild goats and emus. They should be farmed as goat meat makes a fantastic curry and emu meat is better than venison or roo.
I was able to photograph these wild emus as they crossed the road in front of us. 😄
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