A bit like a lot of the Gulf Burketown seems to have it's share of boom and bust. At one stage it had its own meat works and boiling down works producing salted beef and tallow.

Now a lot of the machinery is just lying in the scrub.

We went looking for the Landsborough tree. It was a tree that was blazed by Landsborough who was sent up on a ship from Brisbane to look for Burke and Wills. The short story is that he buried some supplies and blazed a tree. Turns out the tree burnt down several years ago. I took a shot of this interesting tree instead.

This bore has been flowing since 1880 something. In the process it has built this mineral mound. The water is hot and is only drinkable by adult stock. Unlike other free flowing bores there are no plans to cap it. The Burketown community is trying to get government grants to build some pools to have heated "bathing" at different temperatures and some board walks through the associated wet lands. There  was a hot public bath here in the ancient past.