Travel the top road through ever-changing landscapes to Jundah then take the Settlers Nature Drive along the Thomson River featuring sign-posted descriptions of native plants. Unique “Welcome Signs” to the town replicate the historic shop front still to be seen in the main street of Jundah. The signs tell the story of the town’s early years and are linked together by a walking trail. Follow the Jundah-Quilpie Road for about 50km to Welford National Park and Little Boomerang Waterhole, which offers a bush camp. Keep your camera ready for a land of contrasts with wide coolabah-lined waters, golden-green spinifex, white-barked ghost gums and red sand dunes. Stay alert for sightings of the rare yellow-footed rock-wallabies and mulga parrots too. Head back towards the Yaraka-Retreat Road and travel the short distance to the site of Magee’s Shanty, put on the map by Banjo Paterson’s poem “A Bush Christening”. Arriving into the small township of Yaraka for the evening, be sure to make it in time for sunset. Nestled between Mesa Hills with a backdrop of the Yang Yang ranges, the craggy escarpments and changing colours around sunset are a photographer’s delight