Amateur Traveler episode 839. Today the amateur traveler talks about Bush

Rangers and Billy Can Lunches, Dinosaurs and Quantis, Emus and Kangaroos as we go to the Outback in Queensland.

This is Chris Christensen from Amateur Traveller.

Let's talk about Queensland. I'd like to welcome to show Melissa Delaware from Thrifty Family Travels

and Queensland Travel Guide.com.

dot AU, who has come to talk to us about the Queensland Outback.

Melissa, welcome to the show.

Thank you very much, Chris, for having me.

Melissa, and I met it Tibex. Thank you very much Chris for having me.

Melissa and I met it Tibex in Thailand and had a good time talking about things that we record on and you are a big fan of the outback. What is your connection with Queensland?

First of all.

I have lived in Queensland my whole life in Brisbane to be exact,

which is probably a bit odd for travel-obsessed people,

but I haven't lived anywhere else. I've always lived in Brisbane and like most people I have tended to holiday on the coast of the Great Barrier Reef and Gold Coast.

And it wasn't really until when COVID,

we had quite strict lockdowns here in Australia.

And so basically for a good part of a couple of years,

I couldn't leave Queensland and so I guess I was forced to travel in to different places and someone very early on said oh have you been to the outback and I said no I haven't I should go there so I went off for a two-week

trip with my eight-year-old daughter just her and myself and just absolutely loved it and so pretty much every other trip we did during

COVID was in the Queensland outback. It's just an amazing place and bit disappointed in myself that I haven't been soon

And why should someone go to the Queensland Outback?

Okay. Firstly I think when most people think of Queensland or plan a visit to

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