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Australian Stockman's Hall of Fame
ettiewyn Says: The Australian Stockman's Hall of Fame is Longreach's second big attraction, besides the Qantas Museum. Stockman is one of the Australian words for cowboy, and the Australian Stockman's Hall of Fame is not only a hall of fame telling you about Australia's most famous...
ettiewyn Says: When I walked from my accomodation to the Stockman's Hall of Fame, I discovered a Botanical Walkway. This is a trail that was established to enhance the understanding of the plants of the region and the appreciation of nature. The walkway is the usual pedestrian's way from...
Qantas Founders Museum - Historical Hangar
ettiewyn Says: The hangar cannot be visited at the moment, but it was there that the first Qantas planes were constructed. I find this quite fascinating - it is a real piece of Australian history! I think it is great that the hangar is still there after more than ninety years and has not...
Qantas Founders Museum - Boeing 747
ettiewyn Says: This aircraft is the main attraction of the museum, but you need to pay a special ticket if you want to do a tour of it. The aircraft was originally constructed in 1979 and bought from Boeing by Qantas. It flew more than 80 million kilometers for the airline! It was later...
ettiewyn Says: The Qantas Founders Museum is an interesting museum that tells us about the history of Qantas Airlines. The airline was founded in Longreach and nearby Winton in the 1920s. Qantas therefore has strong links to this area!The name stands for Queensland and Northern Territory...
ettiewyn Says: During my stroll through the town centre, I saw the pretty historical building of the Shire Hall. The building was opened in 1928 by the then Governour of Queensland. In the 1950s, the ABC had a local broadcasting studio in this building. It now houses the local library.The...
VISIT THE AUSTRALIAN STOCKMANS HALL OF FAME
DennyP Says: On any visit to Longreach this is definately a place not to be missed...This is a wonderful tribute to the man on the land and above all, the great Aussie stockman (cowboy to some) .This is the man who knows and understands horses , and also is a great horseman in the...
Aussie Betta Cabins: Good budget choice
ettiewyn Says: I was travelling Australia on a budget and usually stayed in backpacker hostels, but in Longreach I had to opt for something different as there is no hostel. Searching online I found Aussie Betta Cabins and I did not regret that I had chosen to stay there.As you can see in...
ettiewyn Says: Longreach is located on the Greyhound route from Brisbane to Mount Isa and vice versa. People might think me insane, but I love the Greyhound bus and I really enjoyed my eighteen hour ride from Brisbane to Longreach. The bus leaves Brisbane at 04.50pm in the evening and you...
ettiewyn Says: If you arrive by Greyhound bus and need a taxi and there is no taxi in sight, just go to the bus office next to the bus stop and talk to the people working there. They will call a taxi for you.As I was told then, there is only one taxi in the town, operated by a local...
Helpfulness
Favorite thing: I really enjoyed my stay in Longreach, but unfortunately I missed what had been my main plan: A tour to Lark Quarry. As I went there out of season, the tours were not running, at least not for only one passenger. When the company informed me about this I decided to go to Longreach anyway as I wanted to take the Greyhound inland route from Brisbane to Cairns, and it was still worth it - but I think that to visit Lark Quarry would have been a special highlight.
Lark Quarry is the only place on earth where the footprints of a dinosaur stampede have been preserved. About 95 million years ago, there was a stampede of a large number of small dinosaurs. They gathered to drink water out of a lake, when a big carnivore dinosaur arrived, so they fled to escape and left their footprints - more than three thousand footprints!
The site is now protected as a conversation park. You can only access it by guided tours. Of course you can go there by your own car, or you can do the guided tour from Longreach which I missed.
I really wanted to see this place as I find it so fascinating that these ancient footprints have been preserved, and such a huge number of them! Maybe I will have the chance to see it one day :-)
Further information:
www.dinosaurtrackways.com.au
www.carisbrookestation.com.au
Updated Nov 23, 2011
Longreach - the birthplace of Qantas
Longreach is quite an off the beaten path destination, so how did I happen to go there? In the end of my big trip around Australia I went to Brisbane and then needed to go back to Cairns somehow where...
LONGREACH Longreach is located nearly 1200 kilometrs North west of Brisbane. The city stands in the middle of the Pastoral region and you know this when you see all the station hands and cattlemen...
Longreach - Outback Queensland
This is probably Longreach's major tourist attraction. For more info see: http://www.outbackheritage.com.au/
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