Finally found some warm weather

[Ean Austral]

Gday all

Pull into longreach today at lunchtime and a cool 41 degrees at 4pm and nice warm 47 degrees.

The QANTAS museum was just awesome going back tomorrow to finish it off. Sadly the stockmans hall of fame is closed till next month so guess will just have to come back again.

Cheers Ean

[Pedro_The_Swift]

47:o

you'd need to sit very close to the taps:beer:

[Cobber]

The stockman's hall of fame is excellent - pity you can't go in :(

Glad you're enjoying yourself otherwise though. 47 degrees is perfect pub weather! :beer:

[Ean Austral]

The stockman's hall of fame is excellent - pity you can't go in :(

Glad you're enjoying yourself otherwise though. 47 degrees is perfect pub weather! :beer:

And now its just started to rain.:arms::arms::BigThumb:

Cheers Ean

[Cobber]

And now its just started to rain.:arms::arms::BigThumb:
the only way it could get any better is if it was raining money! :D

[Bearman]

If you are going thru Winton have a look at the Waltzing Matilda centre. Interestingly Winton not Longreach is actually the birthplace of Qantas.

[Sprint]

oh joy..... gotta go through to winton next week :-(

[lewy]

might be to late,but have a steak at the RSL

[Ean Austral]

oh joy..... gotta go through to winton next week :-(

Forecast is for 35 on Wednesday so may not be to bad.

Cheers Ean

[Ean Austral]

If you are going thru Winton have a look at the Waltzing Matilda centre. Interestingly Winton not Longreach is actually the birthplace of Qantas.

Yep am stopping in winton tomorrow night. Might even go looking for some Aussie dinosaurs . They do say at the QANTAS museum that winton was the birth place but longreach had the rail connection at that time so it was deemed a more practical place.

I baught a DVD about some guys who followed in mc guiness and gush footsteps by driving a model t ford to Darwin from longreach via the bottom of the gulf and boraloola. This is how the idea for an airline was formed so then QANTAS was hatched. What an amazing piece of history and a great story.

Cheers Ean

[carlschmid2002]

Yep am stopping in winton tomorrow night. Might even go looking for some Aussie dinosaurs . They do say at the QANTAS museum that winton was the birth place but longreach had the rail connection at that time so it was deemed a more practical place.

I baught a DVD about some guys who followed in mc guiness and gush footsteps by driving a model t ford to Darwin from longreach via the bottom of the gulf and boraloola. This is how the idea for an airline was formed so then QANTAS was hatched. What an amazing piece of history and a great story.

Cheers Ean

I watched that doco on a QANTAS flight once. It is an amazing tale.

[mick88]

Interesing place Longreach with athe QANTAS Museum and Stockmans Hall of Fame, so easy to spend days there!
One thing that amazes me about it is the amount of tray back utes set up for roo harvesting!


Cheers, Mick.

[ramblingboy42]

when you drive into Longreach from Stonehenge you can see the 747 on and off for a bout a half hour.....I believe they lifted it onto plinths sometime back because it was sinking into the ground......

[Bigbjorn]

The Hall of Fame is closed because it has run out of money. Not enough visitors.

Pity. My late mother was a foundation member and donated memorabilia.

If you visit the Matilda Centre in Winton, look for the large wall photo of a Cobb and Co. coach with moustachioed driver standing near the front axle. That is my grandfather.

[Cobber]

The Hall of Fame is closed because it has run out of money. Not enough visitors.What a shame :(

[Bigbjorn]

Yep am stopping in winton tomorrow night. Might even go looking for some Aussie dinosaurs . They do say at the QANTAS museum that winton was the birth place but longreach had the rail connection at that time so it was deemed a more practical place.

I baught a DVD about some guys who followed in mc guiness and gush footsteps by driving a model t ford to Darwin from longreach via the bottom of the gulf and boraloola. This is how the idea for an airline was formed so then QANTAS was hatched. What an amazing piece of history and a great story.

Cheers Ean

There was rail from Townsville to Winton early, and rail from Rockhampton to Longreach. The link between was not built until the 1920's. Before this the mail went by sea to Townsville and then rail to Winton and by mail contractor to Longreach. Townsville is closer than Rockhampton to Winton and Winton & district people still look to Townsville as the main city. The current highway follows the rail line and did not exist until after WW2. The original road was a teamster's road and followed the water points and the big stations of the era to the south and west of the current road. When my family last did the Winton-Longreach mail run there were around 250 people in the little settlements along the rail line. Now there are none. The state school at Evesleigh was mothballed last year when student numbers fell to one.