We arrived in Longreach early on the 16th of August and went straight to the tourist information centre. We discoved there is plenty of amazing things to see and do here. We also discovered that eveything is frightfully expensive. We decided we would visit the Qantas Museum and see a demonstration at the Stockmans Hall Of Fame. We thought two days here would be good. We would have loved to visit the working station "Camden Park" coincidently, but $300 for two hours we thought that was too much money. Got me thinking about holidaying in Australia. You can fly the whole famiily to Bali and stay in a five star resort for a week for the price it will cost you to stay in Longreach at a dusty caravan park for four days and do four attractions. And going to Bali doesn't require the outlay of a caravan, accessories and 4x4 to tow it. No wonder there are few, really no other families up here. Seriously the caravan parks are full, but no younger people with kids like us. Its a shame. After all Longreach and surrounding area is a very big part of our pioneering history.

So anyway we headed off to the Qantas Museum. Entry was expensive but the museum was really good. It was very interesting to learn the history and humble beginnings of Qantas. All starting from Longreach in the early 1920's. We had a guided (inside-out) tour of the Boeing 747 and 707, as well as other aircrafts used by Qantas. I remember being about 5 years old and heading off with my Mum, brother and sister to NSW on a TAA Boeing 707. The trip down memory lane was nice. Back to the tour. Of coarse Charlie stole the show, providing the grey nomas with much entertainment and thoughtful but never ending questions aimed to catch out the tour guide on his profound knowledge of the aircraft in question. Some comments over heard from the nomads on the tarmac were "The next Prime Minister" & "Smart Little Guy". This only encouraged him and Charlie told the tour guide at the end "Well that was great, I know all about Boeing planes now, but I also know all about the Titanic too"! Felicity who was standing near me, joined in as I just laughed and laughed.

We spent most of the day at the museum which is easy to do as it is very interactive for the kids. At around 4pm we left the museum and checked into a caravan park. It was 32 degrees and soon after had we pulled up at our site we were all in the pool cooling down. Great day!