Thursday, September 19, 2013

Day 12 - Wing Around The Rock - Winton to Barcaldine - 314km

Our plan after leaving Winton this morning was to visit the Age of Dinosaurs Museum just outside of town. However it turned out that there was an 11km gravel road into the site which was quite badly corrugated. After only a couple of kilometres of getting shaken to the bone we decided it wasn't that vital to visit the display and turned around.

Heading down to Longreach this was a regular sight...flocks of birds feeding on roadkill which seemed to struggle to know which way to go when taking off, however we fortunately managed to dodge them all.

A rare sight below on this trip...a river with water in it! This is the Thompson River just outside of Longreach.


Another one of the crazy long legged chooks getting ready to dart out on to the road.


As it was only a few months ago we visited Longreach, we just stopped for lunch and a couple of photos at the Qantas Museum and the Hall of Fame and carried on to Barcaldine.






After deciding to stay in Barcaldine for the night, we spent a couple of hours looking through the Workers Heritage Centre displays which were quite interesting and informative. After that it was time for a pub crawl down the main street.




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