Escape the heat at these cool properties

If you can’t handle the heat … get in the pool or a huge walk-in fridge.

Furnace-like heat is blasting large swathes of Queensland, with places like Julia Creek, Cloncurry, Richmond and Hughenden continuing a run of days in the 40s and high 30s, with dust swirling around the Channel Country, and temperatures across much of the outback well above average.

Here we look at properties with some of the coolest (literally) features for any summer stinker.

At Nelly Bay on Magnetic Island,…