DC3 at QANTAS Founders Museum
Insdie the Stockmans Museum
Wood carving in the Stockmans museum
Greetings,
Another warm sunny day at Longreach and not quite as breezy as yesterday. The day opened with a pancake breakfast at the caravan park and a bush poet Milton Taylor. Milton was great and even an old reprobate like myself enjoyed it. Most of his poems were humorous however one about his father and Alzheimers was very poignant. Susan purchased 3 of his cd's so we will have something more to listen to on the road.
After the poetry Susan attended to some more trip accountancy so we now have a fair idea of when we will be destitute.
We returned to the QANTAS Founders museum and finished off a few things we didn't do yesterday including lunch which finishes at 230. We missed out yesterday since it was the same time as our tours finished.
After lunch we toodled over the road to the Stockmans Hall of Fame. This was also full of reading material and some neat video presentations. The building was quite spectacular but i felt its title didn't really reflect the content and i see it now has "and Outback Heritage Centre" added to the title. The gallery's were titled Discovery, Pioneers, Outback Properties, Life in the Outback, and Stock Workers. The museum was good but we both thought the QANTAS Founders was the better of the two.
We returned to camp and had the $13.50 spit roast which was tasty and of good proportions. Fortunately we were outside the building behind windows so the live entertainment was muffled.
I was going to upload some videos tonight but the Telstra 3G network has been running at dial up speed most of the day yesterday and today apart from 30 minutes this morning so that will have to wait.
Tomorrow we move on to Winton 175km up the road.
cheers Simon
......POSTSCRIPT
Now that the weather has warmed up I opted for mid-length pants today which meant time to shave the legs.... nice warm water lots of soap, I was thinking this was a great razor so smooth, wait a minute does it have a cap, no surely not must be superior quality of these 3 blade razors. Leg 1 finished, but still bristly, damn razor did have a cap! Simon was right about the glasses, not sure if it is normal to wear them in the shower though!
Later back at the Qantas Founders museum I had a look at the Animals in War display which was arranged under letters of the alphabet, presumably to interest the kids. A number of exhibits were of particular interest – gas masks made for dogs and horses in WW2, a belt made for his daughter from butterfly wings from Papua New Guinea, and embroidered cards for loved ones – see pics. Apparently there was quite a problem with the returned servicemen smuggling their animal mascots in to Australia including monkeys, dogs, mules and horses, dire warnings were posted by the quarantine authority but our boys found ways to circumvent the law.... wonder what the consequences of these foreigners has been?
Gas mask for dog
Butterfly wing belt
Embroidered card - this one shows colours of allied nations
We took a short drive out of town and I was able to get a picture of the pinky gold grasses on the roadside, took a sample to enable a close up shot – will do in the morning.
Susan
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