Cue, Queen of the Murchison

Up early after a damp night. Wyn and I were fine in our shearer's huts but the campers got wet. Off to Lizard Rock on this property and then north to Mt Magnet and Cue. Race meetings and festivals everywhere make accommodation a lottery. Take each day as it comes.
Late night toilet stops were tricky with complex lighting systems for the distant outdoor loos. The hot water system is wood fired! Kitchen and dining areas were perfectly adequate. The red sandy soil and thin scrub is everywhere and the dust gets into everything as well as up the nose:(
More later tonight.
5.30pm WAT
Lizard Rock met expectations. Mind you, explorers weren't pushed for landmarks to name out this way. We sped back on the red dirt track along the fence to the Homestead and paid our dues and made our way 70k north to Mt. Magnet. It seemed to live up to its reputation as unfriendly town so we pinned our hopes on Cue, a ghost town on the make with a couple of new mines starting. It is a tidy town of 200 souls at present with hopes of several thousand to come. The local Central School seems new and plenty of money has been spent on town facilities. The old shire offices once hosted a Gentlemen's Club and Herbert Hoover was a past president before leaving for the US and a less demanding post.
We visited the enormous pit left behind at Day Dawn gold mine

Rob Vines