Longreach, Qld is a town with 2 very large museums; QANTAS Founders Museum & The Stockmans Hall of Fame. Both of which you can easily spend a full day or 2 wandering around & gain knowledge in history. I found it fascinating to learn that one of the QANTAS founders, Sir Wilmot "Hudson" Fysh, was born in Launceston 7 Jan 1895 & attended Launceston Grammar & Geelong Grammar. He lived for part of his youth in St. Leonards until 1914 when he enlisted in the Light Horse at the start of World War I. Here at the museum there is so much to see & do. Tours are available on a Boeing 747-200 Jumbo Jet "City of Bunbury" and the Boeing 707-138 "City of Canberra" (which you would have seen in a movie starring John Travolta). This is the only place in the world where you can tour a fully equipped operational 747 jumbo jet.
The 707 was restored overseas & flown back home to Australia.
Not every day you get to stand in an engine & thankfully those wheels were not rolling & as you can see I'm not that much taller than them.
Ring, ring, why don't you give me a call. My oh my, I sure am glad the phones have gotten smaller. Check out these monstrosities
Check out the detail on this saddle.
After our 2 days in Longreach & still not seeing everything to see & do we headed on out towards our next destination, Winton, along the Laundsborough Highway, 180 km North. Winton is another town filled with lots of history & is also part of the Dinosaur Trail & home to the Jolly Swagman & has the oldest outdoor movie theatre of which we were fortunate to attend while we camped by a billabong, alias the Pub, being the free camping spot at the North Gregory Hotel. Just as well we made it before sundown to get a spot & also to enjoy the beautiful sunset while sitting outside another hotel sipping orange juice. These ole towns are full of hotels & each have lots of memorabilia hanging from the ceiling & walls of interest.
Jamming it up at Winton at the 'Musical Fence'
Yeah Carol, its nice to hear about your holidays...keep them coming!!
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