Cue, Western Australia (HD)
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The small town of Cue in Western Australia's Murchison Region is to me a particularly interesting outback town. Like so many old WA mining towns, Cue has thrived and floundered over the years with times of boom and bust.
The town was established in 1893 following the discovery of gold in the area the year before, which sparked a gold rush to the remote Murchison Region desert. In its heyday at the beginning of the twentieth century Cue was home to over 10000 people, a thriving and prosperous town known as The Queen of the Murchison.
These days things couldn't be more different. With a population of less than 300, Cue is very close to being a ghost town.
When we visited Cue earlier this year the wide streets were still and silent beneath a big blue desert sky. The whole time we were there we didn't see a single soul walking around town and we noticed a good number of the buildings were abandoned or up for lease.
The empty streets of Cue would have felt really quite spooky if it weren't for the constant parade of roadtrains roaring through on their way between Perth and the Pilbara carrying fuel and massive pieces of mining equipment. This for me is what made Cue such a memorable place -- the decay and ghostliness of the semi-abandoned town, and the way it felt as if time had stood still there ever since the 1930′s.
However I have a feeling that Cue might be quite a different place in a few years time as the shire seems to be going to some effort to restore the town's buildings to their former glory and attract more visitors to the town and surrounding region. And with rumours of a new big mine opening in the area, the population could soon be set to rise again.
Gracious Heritage Architecture in Cue
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Walking around the streets of Cue feel like stepping back in time. Not much appears to have changed on the main street over the years. Almost all of the buildings are the original ones that were built in the 1890′s and 1900′s -- some still serving their original purpose, some beautifully restored and others abandoned and left to ruin.
While a lot of the old heritage Goldrush-era buildings look crumbling and decrepit, I can still understand why Cue's town slogan is Queen of the Murchison. Some of the old sandstone buildings sure are grand for a dusty outpost in the middle of nowhere!
Visiting and Exploring Around Cue, Western Australia
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If you happen to be heading up Great Northern Highway for any reason -- on your way to Karijini and the Pilbara perhaps -- then I highly recommend making a stop in Cue.
It is an interesting and memorable place to spend some time in and is well-situated for a stopover on a long outback drive, being 650km from Perth and approximately half way to Newman and Karijini.
If you've got a bit of time to spare while you're in the area, it's well worth taking a half-day detour westwards out to Walga Rock and the ghost town Big Bell.
Things to See and Do in and Around Cue, Western Australia
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Go for a drive or walk around town and have a look at the interesting and beautiful old heritage buildings.
Government Buildings -- police station, court house and post office
Gentleman's Club (now the shire office)
Masonic Lodge building
Bank of New South Wales building
Rotunda (site of the town's first well)
Pensioner huts and old gaol (part of the caravan park)
Check out the historical photograph collection in the shire office building (formerly the town Gentleman's Club) to gain some more context to the history of Cue.
Drive up to the top of the Radio Tower Hill (Cue Lookout) for views over the town, the nearby mines, and horizon-to-horizon dry red earth.
A good idea is to pick up the brochure and follow the Cue Heritage Trail, which will take around to the main attractions in the surrounding area and provide interesting background info.
Try fossicking for gold -- you never know, you could get lucky!
In late winter and spring the beautiful desert wildflowers bloom to life, carpeting the red dusty ground in fields of colour. This is the best time of year to visit Cue and explore the surrounding country.
Camp out for the night or just enjoy the beautiful scenery and wildlife at Lake Nallan, a nature reserve about 24km north of Cue
Or camp/picnic at Milly Soak, 16km north of Cue. Also has a small pioneer cemetery and well
Head out west along Austin Downs Road to Walga Rock to see the cave paintings, climb the rock and perhaps camp there for the night.
While in the area, check out what remains of Big Bell, a ghost town.
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Murchison Falls National Park: Uganda Top Most Beautiful Destinations of 2013
Uganda's Murchison Falls National Park is rated one of the best in Africa.
Australia: Into The Outback
Traveling Australia: We leave Queensland's tropical coast and head southwest to Mareeba, Granite Gorge, and Chillagoe. The landscape changes dramatically within 200 km, as the drive inland takes you into the beginning of the outback. The scenery is mesmerizing with striking red earth and soft green eucalypts against a backdrop of vivid blue sky.
Travel Guide Australian Outback
The Outback is the vast, remote, arid area of Australia; the term colloquially can refer to any lands outside the main urban areas. The term the outback is generally used to refer to locations that are comparatively more remote than those areas named the bush.
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Murchison off-road adventure Australian outback 4x4 video
We visit Murchison off-road adventure park and make another Australian outback 4x4 video with plenty of 4 wheel driving on tough tracks, mud pits and beautiful australian outback scenery.
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Murchison Falls National Park video UGANDA Africa Beautiful Sights
The beauty of Murchison Falls National Park captured by Reynold Mainse set to the music of Sunrise Over Africa by Sean Frew. I spent one day in Murchison Falls National Park as a tourist with my Canon 5D Mark II in hand to capture photos and video. Murchison Falls National Park is the jewel of Ugandas game parks. It is located along the Western Rift Valley in the northwest of Uganda. The park is 3877 sq km and contains 76 mammal species and 450 bird species. There are many vegetation zones including savannah, riveriene forest, and woodland forest. The key feature of the park is Murchison Falls where the Victoria Nile funnels down a 6 m wide gorge dropping 40 m at 6 million cubic meters per second making it the most dramatic thing ever to happen to the Nile on its 6700 km long journey to the Mediterranean.
The highest density of wildlife is found in the delta that is bound by the Victoria Nile, Lake Albert, and the Albert Nile. This is one of the best places to track the chimpanzees.
Aussie Outback Murchison Oasis Roadhouse Western Australia and Museum
Australian Outback Murchison Oasis Roadhouse in Murchison, a great old fashioned Museum out in the Aussie bush, with old phones and radios, plus an old Bedford Truck. About half way between Kalbarri and Meekatharra. Good place for tourist stop when tripping about north of Perth. Plus close to : The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA), a low-frequency array operating in the frequency range 80-300 MHz; and the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP).
It is also one of two core sites for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), and both current instruments are technology and science pathfinders for the SKA.
MCYs TRAVEL : AUSTRALIA - THE AMAZING OUTBACK [ HD ]
The history of the Australian Outback stretches back at least 50,000 years. In Aboriginal mythology, the Outback was created by ancient spirits who moved across the land, calling animals, plants, rocks and other landforms into being as they went. These stories belong to the Dreamtime and are part of the Outback's rich cultural history.
When the first English colonists came to Australia in the 1770s they settled on the continent's east coast. By the mid-1880s, the settlers had begun to explore Australia's arid interior, driven partly by a desire to discover what was unknown to them, and partly by a desire to realise the Outback's mineral and agricultural promise.
Australia's Outback history from 1880 onwards is a saga of exploration and development, demonstrating the triumph of a pioneering spirit.
Pastoralists followed in the explorers' footsteps, establishing Outback cattle stations in some cases as large as a European country. Gold, silver and opals provided more good reasons for the hardy and the enterprising to embrace the Outback's wild beauty. These men and women battled relentless heat, flash floods and deprivation. In doing so, they forged a unique identity characterised by a bone-dry sense of humour and an astounding spirit or adventure.
The Outback continues to be shaped by remarkable individuals and ancient cultures. Indigenous populations, along with drovers, swagmen, pastoralists, flying doctors, pioneering men and women, prospectors and shearers have all contributed to an Outback history that's rich, resilient and inspiring.
Uniquely Australian
Visit an historic cattle station. The descendants of the famous Australian pastoral family, the Duracks, can be found at Ray Station, near Quilpie in the far south-western corner of Queensland. The 600-sq km sheep and cattle property was settled in 1874 by Patsy and Sarah Tully (nee Durack), and it remains one of few properties in Australia never to have changed hands since white settlement.
Discover Coober Pedy's unique underground history. Opal prospectors at Coober Pedy came up with a great way to escape the desert heat - not only did they work underground, but they lived there too. These miners converted Coober Pedy's underground caves into fully-equipped homes and hotels, providingall the comforts found above ground. Visitors can sleep underground,as well as explore underground museums, potteries, opal shops, an art gallery and, of course, opal mines.
Explore the Outback's Indigenous history at Mungo National Park in New South Wales. The World Heritage-listed Willandra Lakes Region, with Mungo National Park at its centre, maintains a continuous record of human occupation dating back 40,000 years. Rain and wind have uncovered ancient fireplaces and hearths, as well as artefacts, stone tools and animal bones, providing some of the world's oldest evidence of homo sapiens.
Put yourself in the air with a 'Flying Doctor'. On 17 May 1928, an emergency call for help from the Outback town of Julia Creek was answered by Australia's first flying doctor. This airborne emergency service was started by a Presbyterian minister, Reverend John Flynn, who envisaged Outback Australia protected by 'a mantle of safety'. Visitors to the Broken Hill RFDS base, which is open to the public each day, can explore the Mantle of Safety Museum which showcases over 80 years of remarkable Outback history.
Take a walk along Silverton's Heritage trail. Built in 1880 on the back of the region's mineral wealth, Silverton in Outback New South Wales was once a booming silver-mining town. But the discovery of significantly larger mineral deposits at nearby Broken Hill proved to be Silverton's demise, and the town now stands as a ghostly monument to past dreams. Film-lovers may recognise it from scenes in Mad Max 2, A Town Like Alice, and Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.
Visit the Alice Springs Telegraph Station Historical Reserve. The station marks the original site of the first European settlement in Alice Springs and was established in 1872 as part of the Overland Telegraph Line. It is the best preserved of the 12 stations along the line between Adelaide and Darwin. The town of Alice Springs takes its name from the waterhole a short distance to the east of the station buildings.
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Cape Dutch architecture in the winelands: Tulbagh and Riebeek Kasteel. Hermanus whale watching and fynbos-covered mountains. Visiting Elim and enjoying the extraordinarily scenic drive to Swellendam. Learning about ostriches in Oudtshoorn. Hiking along the beach in Goukamma and Tsitsikamma Nature Reserve. Another stunningly beautiful drive to Graaff Reinet and its well preserved Cape Dutch houses before driving north along the Western border of Lesotho.