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- Day 1
- Thursday, August 1, 2024 at 5:39 AM
- 🌙 3 °C
- Altitude: 21 m
AustraliaLarapinta27°38’23” S 153°0’34” E
Early departure delayed
August 1, 2024 in Australia ⋅ 🌙 3 °C
We got away early at around 4:30am with a plan to arrive early at Tara around 8:30am.
However the best plans can always come unstuck. Caught out at the BP Stapylton when a tanker lost his trailer atRead more
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- Day 1
- Thursday, August 1, 2024 at 12:29 PM
- ☀️ 18 °C
- Altitude: 304 m
- AustraliaTara27°16’4” S 150°27’48” E
Early arrival was a good call
August 1, 2024 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
Camels, camels everywhere 🐪
The place is steadying to fill up. The queues getting in and registering are massive, glad we got here earlier.
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- Day 1
- Thursday, August 1, 2024 at 5:12 PM
- ☀️ 16 °C
- Altitude: 303 m
- AustraliaTara27°16’5” S 150°27’50” E
Our site at the track in Tara.
August 1, 2024 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 16 °C
Looks a little different with a few thousand vans parked up. This year is sold out and expectations of over 10,000 people will be in attendance over the weekend.
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- Day 1
- Thursday, August 1, 2024 at 5:15 PM
- ☀️ 16 °C
- Altitude: 309 m
- AustraliaTara27°16’9” S 150°27’48” E
Camels arriving
August 1, 2024 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 16 °C
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- Day 2
- Friday, August 2, 2024 at 1:16 PM
- ☀️ 19 °C
- Altitude: 303 m
- AustraliaTara27°16’5” S 150°27’50” E
Paul taking a Break. 😂
August 2, 2024 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
This is Paul’s idea of going on a caravan break away from work.
Well maybe not his ideal situation.
The Race Track
August 2, 2024 ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
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- Day 2
- Friday, August 2, 2024 at 2:46 PM
- ☀️ 19 °C
- Altitude: 303 m
- AustraliaTara27°16’5” S 150°27’50” E
The one Pub in Town
August 2, 2024 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
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- Day 2
- Friday, August 2, 2024 at 3:11 PM
- ☀️ 19 °C
- Altitude: 310 m
- AustraliaTara27°16’36” S 150°27’32” E
The only Pub in Town
August 2, 2024 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
Well after driving around the block 5 times I finally found the entrance to the pub drive thru bottlo. 25 minutes in the queue, order my bourbons and a slab of Blondes, they tell me the eftpos isn’tRead more
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- Day 2
- Friday, August 2, 2024 at 5:20 PM
- ☀️ 16 °C
- Altitude: 303 m
- AustraliaTara27°16’5” S 150°27’50” E
Off to the Fireworks
August 2, 2024 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 16 °C
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- Day 2
- Friday, August 2, 2024 at 5:20 PM
- ☀️ 16 °C
- Altitude: 303 m
- AustraliaTara27°16’5” S 150°27’50” E
Joining the Camels
August 2, 2024 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 16 °C
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- Day 2
- Friday, August 2, 2024 at 5:46 PM
- 🌙 14 °C
- Altitude: 307 m
- AustraliaTara27°16’15” S 150°27’50” E
Night 1 - Heading to the stadium.
August 2, 2024 in Australia ⋅ 🌙 14 °C
Everyone starting to make their way towards the stadium for the activities and the food outlets and everything Stopping to r wood fired pizzas and looks like it’s gonna be a good night with all theRead more
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- Day 2
- Friday, August 2, 2024 at 5:51 PM
- 🌙 14 °C
- Altitude: 306 m
- AustraliaTara27°16’17” S 150°27’51” E
Live Fire Shows on Stage
August 2, 2024 in Australia ⋅ 🌙 14 °C
Amazing performances with dancers in the fire show. Fire lit batons, fire lit whip cracking, just amazing.
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- Day 2
- Friday, August 2, 2024 at 5:54 PM
- 🌙 14 °C
- Altitude: 307 m
- AustraliaTara27°16’17” S 150°27’52” E
Queuing for the fireworks
August 2, 2024 in Australia ⋅ 🌙 14 °C
40 minutes before the commencement of the fireworks and people are already queueing up for front row seats, it’s gonna look pretty good in a little while.
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- Day 2
- Friday, August 2, 2024 at 6:46 PM
- 🌙 11 °C
- Altitude: 307 m
- AustraliaTara27°16’15” S 150°27’51” E
Fireworks Live
August 2, 2024 in Australia ⋅ 🌙 11 °C
These videos do not do justice to the fireworks that were put on for this little country town. Really great show but something we could not take photos of so enjoy the videos.
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- Day 2
- Friday, August 2, 2024 at 7:40 PM
- 🌙 10 °C
- Altitude: 303 m
- AustraliaTara27°16’5” S 150°27’50” E
Drinks by the campfire
August 2, 2024 in Australia ⋅ 🌙 10 °C
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- Day 3
- Saturday, August 3, 2024 at 11:52 AM
- ☀️ 19 °C
- Altitude: 306 m
- AustraliaTara27°16’16” S 150°27’47” E
Amazing Chainsaw Art
August 3, 2024 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
These carvings were incredible. All started out as 200kg stumps and carved with a chainsaw. The camel is in progress and check out the dog.
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- Day 3
- Saturday, August 3, 2024 at 1:07 PM
- ☀️ 20 °C
- Altitude: 298 m
- AustraliaTara27°16’21” S 150°28’34” E
Caravans Galore
August 3, 2024 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
Now this is a sight to see. Apparently there’s 13,000 people in attendance at this event and the main race track was completely loaded with vans and adjoining areas loaded with vans. The trees carRead more
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- Day 3
- Saturday, August 3, 2024 at 1:08 PM
- ☀️ 20 °C
- Altitude: 306 m
- AustraliaTara27°16’23” S 150°28’18” E
Flight Time
August 3, 2024 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
Took a helicopter flight over Tara and the racetrack. Small town with a huge heart. Was Sue’s first ever chopper flight and she loved it.
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- Day 3
- Saturday, August 3, 2024 at 1:18 PM
- ☀️ 20 °C
- Altitude: 308 m
- AustraliaTara27°16’14” S 150°27’49” E
Meeting the Camel Folk
August 3, 2024 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
The country atmosphere is just so different to the what you receive in the cities. The countryfolk are just so welcoming and loving and fun and nothing really stresses them no matter what they goRead more
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- Day 4
- Sunday, August 4, 2024 at 11:20 AM
- ☀️ 19 °C
- Altitude: 306 m
- AustraliaTara27°16’16” S 150°27’47” E
Camel Art & Products
August 4, 2024 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
The wonderful people at Summerland camels were actually at the Camel races festival and we tested some of the meat products and dairy products from the Camel range. We fell in love with a sausages,Read more
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- Day 4
- Sunday, August 4, 2024 at 11:38 AM
- ☀️ 20 °C
- Altitude: 308 m
- AustraliaTara27°16’14” S 150°27’49” E
Some Video
August 4, 2024 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
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- Day 4
- Sunday, August 4, 2024 at 11:39 AM
- ☀️ 20 °C
- Altitude: 308 m
- AustraliaTara27°16’14” S 150°27’49” E
13,000 People
August 4, 2024 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
Apparently according to Channel 9 news Tara camel races this year reached a record of 13,000 people in attendance. They had to expand the actual caravan camping areas into outside areas as well justRead more
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- Day 4
- Sunday, August 4, 2024 at 1:30 PM
- ☁️ 21 °C
- Altitude: 302 m
- AustraliaTara27°16’11” S 150°27’48” E
And Of Course….
August 4, 2024 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C
And of course there was some camel races which we’re actually hard to try and see with such a crowd you couldn’t get anywhere near the track, so I ducked across to the officials side of the trackRead more
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- Day 5
- Monday, August 5, 2024 at 6:01 PM
- ☁️ 15 °C
- Altitude: 198 m
- AustraliaNindigully28°21’16” S 148°49’16” E
Nindigully Pub
August 5, 2024 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
After we departed Tara, we decided to head towards the Nindigully pub. Had never been out there before and figured it was a good way to kill a day or two before heading our way across to Stanthorpe.
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- Day 5
- Monday, August 5, 2024 at 6:38 PM
- 🌧 15 °C
- Altitude: 198 m
- AustraliaNindigully28°21’16” S 148°49’16” E
Nindigully Chicken Parmie
August 5, 2024 in Australia ⋅ 🌧 15 °C
Just for my friends, Michael and Jake seeing the Nindigully chicken parmie with an egg topper standard on the menu. 😂