Walkabout Creek Hotel , McKinlay

The drive was a 305km straight road across the outback , terrain was dry and flat, the land was the colour of bales of hay with random green trees dotted along the train track that seemed to go on forever, fenced land holding cattle either side , kms of electric pylons, carcasses scattered along the side of the road , wild birds swooped down for their early morning feed, herons perched by the side of creeks looking for their next feed and occasionally the odd 4x4 , truck or road train would whiz passed heading East. Richmond was a quaint town , seemed well cared for , motels seemed half decent and the butchers didn’t resemble the movie set from saw! A beautifully painted water tank could be seen from the servo while filling up!

The place that put Australia on the map, Walkabout Creek hotel , home of crocodile Dundee , as kids we thought the whole of Australia was like the movie.
Even when Paul came over he thought he be landing in the middle whop whop!

Mr Paul James - Crocodile Dundee’s biggest fan…
The movies originally blue bar was out back for you to see.
What a night we had, pizza pool and beer! Paul took on the locals at pool beat the best and potted the black against the barmaid.
The owners, nice older couple had the place up for sale after ten years.
There was memorabilia from the movie from the original Holden never never safari Jeep, the car Walter picked Sue up in after arriving by helicopter, loads of photos mounted on the wall, the never never safari banner and the original Walkabout Creek Hotel sign, oh and they had moved the pub 300meters so it wasn’t in the original location!

We spent the night chatting to locals from Cloncurry who were working on the roads near by. Temps here get to late 40’s early 50’s in the summer, my comment was literally “get stuffed “!

We rocked Walkabout creek that night , the Dundee larger/ Carlton draft bitter flowed that night with white wine and pizzas, the locals soon found out we weren’t the typical tourist especially when you’ve traveled a long way to see a childhood dream in reality and we can safely say it didn’t disappoint and we didn’t disappoint Walkabout creek! “There’s a quicker way!”Read more