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January 1st 2007

Published: January 1st 2007

In the centre of Queensland and the Tropic of Capricorn. We had a great two days in Longreach. Population of 3,000. We spent the morning visiting the Stockman's Hall of Fame and the afternoon, across the road, visiting the Qantas Museum, anyone thinking of visiting Longreach well worth it.

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Longreach sign

Longreach Railway Station

Diesel train from Brisbane stops at Longreach, anyone wanting to go to Winton, there is a bus pick up. Travel time by train is two days.

Don at the Station

Train is called the 'Spirit of the Outback'. Don is standing at the Railway Station.

Queensland

This would be one of the largest old Queenslander's I have seen, so had to take this photo.

Cranes

Driving around the town, saw these two wild cranes standing in front of a house. At first I thought they were statues, but they moved!!!!!

Stockman's Hall of Fame

What can I say, for so many years I have been wanting to see this.

Stockman

What can I say, absolutely fantastic.

Inside the Hall of Fame

Took some other photos inside the Hall of Fame, but this is the only one which turned out great.

qantas 747

We did the tour of the qantas 747 "City of Bunbury".

Cockpit

Took a photo inside the cockpit of the 747. This 747 was built 20 years ago and has flown over a million hours, so was due for retirement.

City of Bunbury 747

What can I say.

Original Qantas Hangar

This is a photo of the original Qantas Hangar, by the way, Qantas stands for (Queensland & Northern Territory Aerial Services) began in the 1920's.

One of the first Qantas planes

Yep, it's me standing beside one of the first planes, don't ask me what type it is(Byplane).

Front tyres of the 747

These tyres off the 747 were standing in front of the Byplane what a comparison.

8th January 2007

Maureen
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Hi J and D. wow looks great and glad you had a good time. But tooooooo hot, save your pennies and check out NYE next year over Antarctica. Now that was awesome, magnificent and magical. I love getting your blogs...to see what you two up up too. Catch you soon. Love M

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