It seems that every western town has spent time and money in developing beautiful walkways for people to exercise and/or stroll at leisure and enjoy nature. Hughenden is no different. This morning I walked along its walkway by the Flinders River and enjoyed the sunrise, the birds, the many works of art and the memorials to local pioneers. Then it was eastward bound on the Flinders Highway. Just outside Hughenden we took a short side trip up to Mt Walker where ...

The roots of my family tree are deep in Charters Towers soil and the leaves, though many now fallen, were once thick and lush. My father was born here in 1933, and so too was his father in 1911. My great-grandfather came to the Towers as a young child with his family in 1891. His father (my great-great grandfather) emigrated from Switzerland and ended up here, first as a Lutheran minister and later as a watchman at the Daydawn Gold Mine. It was wonderful explorin...