Today we've travelled to Longreach, a town of 3,500 which boasts the Qantas museum, The Stockman's Hall of Fame, and School of the Air, all of which we plan to visit. There are a few other museums as well, but we probably won't bother with them.
The car's booked in for a service tomorrow and we'll ride our bikes up the road a bit to see School of the Air, which should be interesting. If we have time we'll drop in at Stockman's Hall of Fame on the way back. Qantas museum's across the road but we're booked in for Friday morning to tour a 747 and a 707, hopefully getting to see the cockpits of each.
This is a very big caravan park- our site number is 254. It's spread out over a large area on the outskirts of town, and has amenities which are palatial compared with those of Winton, and the water doesn't smell of rotten eggs either.
As we drove in, Chris pointed out a statue of a brolga. It took a few moments to realise it wasn't a statue. We actually had to wait for one to get out of the road so we wouldn't run over it. A pair of them are stationed at the back of our caravan, and every now and then the male starts a chortling sound. With a bit of luck we may even see them dance!
I've been trying to upload a photo of the brolgas, but Google who host this site must be having problems. I'll try again later.
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