Month: June 2020

Lark: (n) – 1. Something done for fun; an amusing escapade. 2. An activity regarded as foolish or a waste of time. One of the draws for coming out to Longreach was the suggestion that we could visit the dinosaur museum in Winton. It would be a further two hours away, but, well…dinosaurs!! We had…

Peter and Carolyn wanted to go and visit the Stockman’s Hall of Fame. This initially failed to elicit excitement as it sounded like a place focused on cows and farming. These are two things not generally seen in Michael Bay movies and not typically classed as exciting. In addition, this trip was already going to…

We arrived in Emerald at around 4:00. ‘Emerald City’, as I loving thought of it, was about a four and a half hour trip North on the Capricorn Highway. Freeways as we think of them in the ‘States don’t really exist out here. If you want to travel anywhere it’s a simple two lane road…

Fast food is a special treat here because you need to drive at least an hour to get any. From Monto it’s an hour trip up to Bilo to find a KFC. In Monto itself, the closest thing to fast food I’ve found is the “One Stop Shop” and their fish and chips. It’s run…