Yes, Julia Creek, the most suspiciously well resourced town you will ever see. Not only does it have (all open to the public) a skate park, football field, pool, waterpark, tennis courts, under cover basketball courts and shade cloths over the main street parking spaces. When they ran out of things to build, they built a Bike Safety Training Park, where you can ride your bike around mock-up roads with traffic lights, roundabouts. The population? Around 550. They must have the best local member ever.
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| A "Bike Safety Training Park" complete with road signs, roundabouts and traffic lights |
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| The public mini golf park, across the road from the sporting complex, water park and tennis courts |
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| Public art: a light horseman sculpture made from scrap metal around Julia Creek |
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| The road to Julia Creek |
The caravan park is also excellent, with full kitchen / BBQ facilities and great amenities. Oh, and some artesian bath houses. And we know they like to name their roadways around here, but Julia Creek somehow ended up being on the Matilda Way, the Overlanders Way and (you guessed it) the Barra Express. It is serviced by a rail line (the Inlander) from Townsville to Mt Isa and even has its own airport. In fact, there are several train stations nearby but many of these are at towns that have been abandoned - why live there when you can live at Julia Creek? The economy is supported by the beef, wool and mining industries, so I guess they must be doing well?
At the (suspiciously well resourced) information centre, they have a mini-zoo where they display live dunnarts twice a day during feeding time. These little insect-eating marsupials are only found in this area and were thought to be extinct until 1992. They tried breeding and releasing them but they are a particular delicacy for the feral cats.
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| The mud is drying up after the recent wet |
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