595 km
We left Bluff without having breakfast as we were heading to Emerald to pick up a good coffee and have good signal for Christo to be able to have a meeting. We walked around Emerald Botanical Gardens while Christo handed over. The botanical gardens are a bit patchy; but are a nice place to exercise around.
After the handover meeting we had a quick stop at the Big Easel…one of Australia’s many BIG things. It is a huge enlargement of Van Gogh’s Sunflower painting.
All these mining town roads are really bumpy with the heavy loads transported on them, including cattle.
Lunch was outside the closed Claremont Museum with mandatory photo of the group in front of a dragline bucket.
The road to Charters Towers is VERY long and boring! There is a warning sign saying that there is a high accident rate for 350km!!! Yes, kilometers!! That summarises it!
Our camp for the night was outside Charters Towers, again a free camp with toilets and cold water showers
Macrossan Park 
Macrossan Park 
Flattening the tent or yoga?? 
Great old stained glass window signs