Destinations: Mt Isa, Boulia Duration: 3 Nights, 4 Days Best Time to Visit: September/October
The prime purpose of the tour is to see the budgerigars which visit the town, often in large numbers, during the dry spring months when the only water available is in the town dams and cattle troughs.
Anywhere west of the Great Dividing Range can be labelled as the Outback. Boulia is well into the Outback in the west of Queensland. It is an arid landscape with the seasonal rivers of the Channel country usually just dry depressions and gullies at this time of year. With its red, rolling grasslands, rocky outcrops and stunted bush, it can be surprisingly beautiful. It is big sky, cattle country, marginal land with long straight roads and a small population. Towns tend to be small and far apart, but many have very colourful histories and it is worth stopping off to look at local museums and places of interest.
On this tour we travel from the mining town of Mt Isa home of the southern hemisphere’s largest rodeo south to Boulia a small Outback town famous for fossils and its mysterious Min Min lights.