Cracow: Australia's Last Gold Rush Town

Cracow: Australia's Last Gold Rush Town Recollections, photographs, relics & stories from the town of Cracow, Queensland. Book Coming Soon 📖⏳

Situated on Wulli-Wulli country between Eidsvold & Theodore, about 5 and a half hours north-west of Brisbane.

06/04/2026

STOP KILLING CRACOW BEACH (Easter Edition) - Whatever the Council doesn't feel like doing...

02/04/2026

The Watchmaker who Disappeared Forever...

28/03/2026

Check out this envelope full of old photos from the 1950s!
This is Lorry Green in his days as a fit young surface driller at the Golden Plateau. For the life of me I cannot remember who gave us this envelope, however I thank you endlessly. These photos from Mr Green's collection are priceless.

19/03/2026

Local soft drink factories.
Did you know that nearly every town in this district once had its own local soft drink factory?! What was your favourite local soft drink?

14/03/2026

Whatever the council doesn't feel like doing...
Episode 6 - Somebody's Poisoned the Waterhole!

11/03/2026

GRAPHIC WARNING: Have you mob ever seen an elderly looking cockatoo, behaving strange with a frail body and lack of feathers? Chances are they are probably suffering from the final stages of PBFD (Psittacine beak and feather disease). It's an extremely contagious illness amongst at least 38 out of 50 native bird species in Australia, with symptoms of feather loss and beak deformation. As the disease takes effect, the flock will desert the carrier. Overtime the carrier loses the ability to fly, eat, and walk, before dying a painful, lonely death.
Whilst I was out filming the floodwaters I saw a cockatoo fall down from the sky. He looked to be in a bad way, he walked around for a couple minutes before I perched him up on a branch; hoping he'd get it together and fly away. After a few minutes it became painfully obvious that he could no longer fly. Upon closer inspection I discovered he was gravely infected with beak and feather disease. This cockatoo had entered the final stage of the disease, his mussel tissue was rotting to the point where he could no longer fly.
I placed the cockatoo on the ground, laying him down on his side with the weight of a branch resting under his wing to comfortably hold him down. I then put him out of his misery. May the next life treat him better than this one.

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