A quick journey of 2 hours today (and much road kill later), we arrived at Longreach. It is the biggest town we have seen so far on our travel inland. Discovery Caravan Park is huge and it has its own restaurant – which we will be visiting for dinner tonight! (Yeh, a night off cooking)
Our afternoon visit was to the QANTAS Founders Museum. We were able to go aboard a 747 ‘City of Bunbury’ and see the black box (orange in actual colour), hear information about its history as well as the founding of QANTAS by Hudson Fysh. The 747 arrived here in Longreach on 16th November 2002 – its last tour of duty was bringing home the survivors from the Bali Bombings.
The weather here at Longreach is fantastic – 30 degrees during the day without any breeze. A lot of the grey nomads definitely travel up here to get away from the winter and we now understand why. In fact, we have not seen any other family with children travelling like we are…only grey nomads (or recycled teenagers, as they like to be called).
Tomorrow we are planning a quiet morning and a trip to the Australian Stockman’s Hall of Fame. It should continue to deepen our appreciation for the heritage of the way our country became what it is today. We have already seen how important the agricultural industry has been in this large region.
Hey, why do you need a GPS when there are fewer roads???? Thought you were going west, west, west, south. Been great to follow you and share your journey - you've seen some great stuff and I bet you're looking forward to the rest days! And how has the "reversing with the van" been going? ("No, the other right!!") Cheers.
ReplyDeleteJust caught up with your journey (finally) and feel like I'm enjoying it evry bit as much as you! Excellent pics and story. Hope you dont tire of the entries, ços I'll be looking forward to every post.
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