Min Min Encounter & Boulia Visitor Information Centre

06/11/2026

Public Notice: Min Min Encounter Closed this Afternoon, Friday 6th November 2026

05/11/2026

02/11/2026

MEMORY LANE MONDAY

This great old photo, shared on the Winton and Diamantina Heritage Truck and Machinery Museum page, is believed to feature one of Wintons own, Wattie Campbell, around 1974.

The story goes that Wattie was involved in moving this building from the 20 Mile, along the Boulia Road, back into town.

Not your everyday removal job!

Does anyone remember this building being moved or have more details to share? We’d love to hear the story!

30/10/2026

Just beyond the Boulia Shire boundary lies one of the
outback's remarkable natural and historic treasures, Gum Hole, nestled within the spectacular Diamantina National Park.

While the park isn't within our shire, one of its main access points is via Springvale Road, right here in the Boulia Shire, making it a familiar part of our wider outback backyard.

Known to the Maiawali people for countless generations as Nandibargoola, this beautiful waterhole on Whistling Duck Creek has a story stretching back thousands of years.

From its deep Aboriginal cultural connections to the days of cattle stations, drovers and stockmen seeking water and shade, Gum Hole has witnessed generations of life in the Channel Country.

Take a moment to discover the story behind this special place in the below post from the Australian Stockman's Hall of Fame and Outback Heritage Centre

GUMHOLE CREEK – WHERE THE OUTBACK HOLDS A THOUSAND STORIES!

Hidden deep in Queensland's magnificent Channel Country lies a place where ancient landscapes, Aboriginal heritage and the legends of Australia's drovers come together.

Nestled within the spectacular Diamantina National Park, Gum Hole (Nandibargoola), on Whistling Duck Creek, is one of those magical outback places where time seems to stand still.

For countless generations, the Maiawali people knew this precious waterhole as Nandibargoola. It was a place of life, shelter and cultural connection in a country where water meant survival.

When European pastoralists arrived in the late 1800s, the surrounding country became part of the great cattle runs of western Queensland. Diamantina Lakes Station was established in 1875 and, in good seasons, carried up to 12,000 head of cattle.

Weary drovers guiding mobs of cattle across the vast plains, horses drinking at the water's edge, billy cans boiling over campfires and swags rolled out beneath the spreading coolabah trees.

Gum Hole became a welcome resting place for stockmen travelling through this remote country, offering precious water and shade beneath the blazing outback sun.

But this remarkable landscape holds even older stories.
Formed over millions of years, the surrounding country is a spectacular patchwork of sandstone mesas, rolling sand dunes, ancient river channels, claypans and endless gibber plains.

During long droughts, the land can appear harsh and unforgiving. Yet when the rains arrive, the Diamantina transforms into a magnificent inland wonderland, with floodwaters spreading across the plains, wildflowers bursting into bloom and thousands of birds gathering around the waterways.

It is also a refuge for some of Australia's rarest wildlife, including bilbies, kowaris and the mysterious night parrot.

In 1992, the Queensland Government purchased Diamantina Lakes Station, and the property became a national park in 1993, protecting more than half a million hectares of extraordinary natural and cultural heritage.

Today, Gum Hole remains a place of beauty and quiet reflection. Beneath the same coolabah trees that sheltered generations before us, visitors can still experience the solitude, history and breathtaking beauty of Australia's Channel Country.

Image: Gum Hole (Nandibargoola), Diamantina National Park. Source: Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service.

28/10/2026

Public Notice: Both MME and Boulia Heritage Complex Closed Thursday, 29th October 2026

23/10/2026

All the clouds, none of the rain!

Jane Smith captured these storm clouds rolling into Boulia recently, in an amazing display across the outback sky.

It looked promising, but not a drop of rain was recorded.

📸 Jane Smith

22/10/2026

has shared some fascinating information about one of Australia’s most enduring mysteries — the Min Min Lights.

Descriptions often tell of disc-shaped lights hovering on the night horizon, sometimes white and other times coloured. There are even stories of the lights following travellers and illuminating their vehicles as they make their way across the outback plains.

Over the years, science has offered various theories to explain the phenomenon, but the mystery continues to capture imaginations.

And here’s something worth remembering, Indigenous stories of the Min Min Lights date back centuries before European settlers arrived.

So, are they a trick of the light, something science is yet to explain, or something else entirely?

Here in Boulia, the Min Min Lights are part of our story, our history and what makes this corner of the outback so intriguing.

Have you seen a Min Min Light? We’d love to hear your story! 👇

21/10/2026

It’s not quite the Min Min Lights, but we reckon it’s just as spectacular!

A stunning outback sunset, a lone tree and a sky putting on a breathtaking show. Sometimes the outback delivers a little bit of magic without even trying!

📸 Beautiful photo by on Instagram.

19/10/2026

Boulia Shire Councillor Jack Neilson takes us back in time with a look at the fascinating history of his family property, Two Rivers.

This country has seen some significant characters pass through over the years, including legendary explorers Burke and Wills and the Durack family, famous for their cattle empire and pioneering days in the outback.

And if those paddocks and waterways could talk, they’d have plenty more tales to tell! Two Rivers was also home to an old Cobb & Co changeover, where horses were changed along the coach route to Cloncurry, keeping passengers and mail moving across the country.

From the days of exploration and horse-drawn coaches to the cattle industry that helped shape outback Queensland, Two Rivers and many other stations hold a special place in the history of the Boulia Shire.