Enjoy the hospitality of the outback pubs on this trip. Meals are not included (except at the Goldfields Hotel in Forsayth,  where a light breakfast is included), but great value pub counter ... read more


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Savannahlander departs Forsayth:

To Cairns Friday 8:30 am
 
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Forsayth Station
Forsayth Station
Originally known as Finnigan's Camp after the prospector who discovered gold nearby in 1871. Within a year the settlement had become Charleston township, and it continued to grow despite near desertion when its inhabitants rushed to the Palmer River Goldfield in 1874 and to the Hodgkinson in 1876. After a slump in the mid-1880s the township was again a flourishing centre by the mid-1890s, having five hotels, a school and a court of petty sessions.

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