Heading out of Longreach, follow the Longreach-Jundah Road for about 100 kilometres to the Lochern National Park signpost. Turn right and follow this unsealed road for about 40 kilometres to the park boundary at the Thomson River. Lochern has 20 kilometres of Thomson River frontage. The park protects 24,300 hectares of important habitat, with many lagoons and waterholes providing refuge for birds and other wildlife including hooded robins, Major Mitchell's, cockatoos, Hall's Babblers, fairy-wrens, emus and stately brolgas. Black kites fly overhead and Whistling kites nest and call beside Broadwater Waterhole. Keep an eye out for Red-tailed black-cockatoos flying along the river channels and Budgerigars nesting in the Coolibah trees. The park has no walking tracks but you can wander around the river and waterholes or follow the Lochern Habitat Drive (approximately 40 kilometres return, allow two to four hours). Canoeing and kayaking in Broadwater Waterhole is a popular activity and fishing in the waterholes is permitted (size and bag limits apply). You can also ride your bicycle along the park's Habitat Drive. Bush camping is permitted at Broadwater Waterhole. For more information visit the National Parks and Wildlife website.