The thousands of regular readers of this blog are having withdrawals with the severe shortage of postings in the past few days. But here in the central west of Queensland, Longreach—the gateway to the outback—they have a saying, “there’s no business like show business”
Forget the outback! Since we lobbed here at midday on Friday we’ve been out every night to dinner and a show and every day visiting the famed Stockmans Hall of Fame and the ever popular Qantas Founders Museum.
Blimey! Hardly any time for an afternoon nap, let alone write a blog post.
Friday night dinner and a show at the Heartland Theatre at Qantas Museum, very pleasant 2 courses with melody and yarns from a couple of folk singers.
Saturday, something with a bit more robustness at Smithy’s Place on the banks of the Thomson River at sunset with brilliant camp oven tucker, damper and a very entertaining cowboy singer.
Oh yes! And a coach to pick you up and drop you off at home again. Especially as there was a fishing competition on the river and it was a toss-up who caught the most; the fishermen on the river banks or the cops and their booze bus on the road in.
Sunday we were still very much up for it with dinner and a show at the Stockman Bar and Grill. A tasty roast with all the trimmings and trick riding, whip cracking, singing cowboys/girls.
Today we slept in and missed the Cobb and Co stage coach ride out to a local farm. Or perhaps we were a little bit cowboy’d out?
Longreach. What a top spot and well worth a trip across this vast land to enjoy everything on offer.
JV
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