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Name: Blue Heeler Hotel
Address:
City: Outback Queensland Australia
Phone: +61 7 4746 8650
What's it like?
Kynuna may be small, with a population around 19, but you'll be sure of a big welcome at the must-see Blue Heeler Hotel. It's worth the three and a half hour drive from Mount Isa if just to admire the walls covered with graffiti and signatures from all over Australia.
Soak up a cold beer as you soak up the local history. It was here that bush poet Banjo Paterson brokered a truce between land owners and sheep shearers in 1895, with champagne passed out through the hotel's guillotine window as a gesture of goodwill. Why not visit during the Kynuna Surf Festival, held in aid of the Royal flying Doctor Service. Surf? There's heaps of sand in the area but no sea. "But there's lots of froth on the beer," laughs hotel owner Barbara Matthews.
Stay in the motel or hotel accommodation. There is also a camping and caravan park.
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