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WAy out! - stretching to Longreach
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<blockquote data-quote="JohnM" data-source="post: 2322243" data-attributes="member: 5371"><p>OK, backing up from the previous online transit pics.</p><p></p><p>After overnight at BNE, I arrived in LRE about 1400h on Wednesday afternoon. Longreach is towards the top and slightly right of centre. It’s flat out there! The Founders Museum, my destination for the next day, is on the edge of the field.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]266950[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>I collected a rental car and visited the information centre to see what to do for the rest of the day. Longreach itself doesn’t hold a lot of attraction but Ilfracombe, 27 km east is a very tidy little town with some good history and displays. Well worth a visit.</p><p></p><p>Intuitively, I would have thought of central Queensland as mainly cattle-grazing, but this area is largely sheep-grazing and was the location of Wellshot Station, the largest sheep-raising station by numbers (almost 0.5M) in the late 19th century <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilfracombe,_Queensland" target="_blank">Ilfracombe, Queensland - Wikipedia</a>).</p><p></p><p>The Machinery Mile is literally a mile-long (and thus pretty much the full length of the town) well-done display, interspersed with some historic buildings.</p><p></p><p>I parked at the E end of town outside the Wellshot Hotel, crossed the road (Landsborough Highway, which runs closely along the Tropic of Capricorn) and walked back W along the full Machinery Mile. I then crossed back over to make my way back via the Wellshot Centre and the swimming pool which is fed by warm water from the Great Artesian Basin.</p><p></p><p>It was hot day, so a cold xx_X at the pub went down well to finish.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]266951[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]266952[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]266953[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]266954[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]266955[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]266956[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]266957[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]266958[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]266959[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JohnM, post: 2322243, member: 5371"] OK, backing up from the previous online transit pics. After overnight at BNE, I arrived in LRE about 1400h on Wednesday afternoon. Longreach is towards the top and slightly right of centre. It’s flat out there! The Founders Museum, my destination for the next day, is on the edge of the field. [ATTACH type="full"]266950[/ATTACH] I collected a rental car and visited the information centre to see what to do for the rest of the day. Longreach itself doesn’t hold a lot of attraction but Ilfracombe, 27 km east is a very tidy little town with some good history and displays. Well worth a visit. Intuitively, I would have thought of central Queensland as mainly cattle-grazing, but this area is largely sheep-grazing and was the location of Wellshot Station, the largest sheep-raising station by numbers (almost 0.5M) in the late 19th century [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilfracombe,_Queensland"]Ilfracombe, Queensland - Wikipedia[/URL]). The Machinery Mile is literally a mile-long (and thus pretty much the full length of the town) well-done display, interspersed with some historic buildings. I parked at the E end of town outside the Wellshot Hotel, crossed the road (Landsborough Highway, which runs closely along the Tropic of Capricorn) and walked back W along the full Machinery Mile. I then crossed back over to make my way back via the Wellshot Centre and the swimming pool which is fed by warm water from the Great Artesian Basin. It was hot day, so a cold xx_X at the pub went down well to finish. [ATTACH type="full"]266951[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full"]266952[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full"]266953[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full"]266954[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full"]266955[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full"]266956[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full"]266957[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full"]266958[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full"]266959[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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