Leaving finally, hard to believe that this time last week we hit the road. Was a fabulous weekend, went way to fast, and nearly 600 photos later and still wishing I was able to take more it was over. Some crazy roadkill, we see roos and the occasional dingo here, but out there we saw emu's, wild pigs and camels, some of them would leave a nasty dint in the car. Also saw half a dozen live camels on the side of the road, wish we stopped to take pics but the kids were sleeping and being only about 15 minutes out of Barcy we didn't want to wake them again.
Stopped off in Emerald on Friday Night, just so we could break the trip up a little, didn't know how well the kids were going to travel. Had to get Red Rooster for Tea as the motel we stayed at (after telling Luke they did tea) apparently DON'T do tea on Friday/Saturday/Sunday nights. Left about 9ish Saturday Morning and continued our drive, finally reaching Barcy about 12.30pm just in time for Lunch. Went to the races and sheep shearing that night. Fun atmosphere.
Rev Fest all day Sunday. Decided against going to the footy that night and Luke and I stayed home to try and get the kids in bed for a bit of sleep, and we watched a few movies. Was nice just to chill out for a while. Luke's cousin Cindy (who we stayed with) went out and didn't get home til 2am, for such a small township Barcy has 6 pubs on the main street.
Monday we decided to drive out to Longreach, had a look at The Stockmans' Hall of Fame and the Qantas Muesum. Seeing as it's only an hour away we couldn't not go all that way and see both those places. Was just a shame that we couldn't of spent a while longer exploring.
Left about 1.30pm and decided that we'd travel home, made a few stops along the way for fuel, tea and just to have a break and Managed to hit home at 10pm. Exhusted but so glad of the time away, planning on going again. If your after a great drive I say head out west. Once we went past Emerald we were lucky to see maybe 50 cars in four hours of driving.
So onto the happy snaps.
Barcaldine Sheep Shearing.
The Barcaldine Rev Fest
Had a great day, got plenty of car pics, and racing snaps. Fast cars, some we weren't really expecting, like a Turbo'd Volvo, and a Ford Territory, but damn both those vehicles could move. One of the quickest cars all day was owned and driven my the local doctor from Longreach. Was cool to see, also one of the local chicks has a very hotted up ute that really really moved. Was really hot, and I got pretty badly burned, but good feeds, great atmosphere, and the whole community really gets involved in the local events. So brilliant to see. And they are all so friendly, make you feel very welcome into the place.
Austalian Stockman's Hall of Fame
Is gorgeous, full of lots of things too look at, heaps of information, and they have a live show which we opted out of as it went for an hour and we didn't want to have to hang around. Very very dark inside, so it made taking photos really tricky, but got some good snaps nonetheless. I'm so glad that we left Barcy early on Monday morning and went for the drive out to Longreach. Just wished we had some more time out there so we could of explored the town a little more.
Qantas Muesum
Luke's dream place. Managed some lunch here, paying nearly $9 for a sandwich. Lots of history, could of done tours but lacking dollars and time once again.
Illfracome Machinery Muesum.
This little place is between Longreach and Barcaldine. They have HEAPS of old machinery lining the main street through town, goes right from one end to the other. only stopped here for 30 minutes on our way home and say maybe a quarter of everything there.
So that was our weekend.
Very full as you can see. We had a blast, but still couldn't wait to get home.
Hope everyone has a brillant weekend.
Nicxx
2 comments:
Wow Nic nice area to go visit... so heaped with Australian history ohhhhh and Ive flown in a 747 air bus... huge thing they are... love all the photos
Happy Mothers day (almost over but not to worry sure hope it was nice and you spent it with love ones) xxx
Great pics Nicole, the shearing pics show a shearer twice, he is from Hughenden now in Longreach. I am friends with his wife....our second property is in Longreach. Where are you from exactly in central qld?
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