We made the 100 odd kilometres to Longreach in time for lunch and we booked into the caravan park.
The tourist attraction here is the Stockman's Hall of Fame.
I expected it to be all rodeo and riding chaps but it turned out to be very good. It is really a potted history of Australia from a country point of view.
Dear old George Johnston, my great, great, great grandfather, gets his picture in the pre 1860's display. There is a good deal about the most famous explorers. There is some good representations of life in the country in the nineteenth century. There is a very atmospheric thing with a campfire diorama and a dummy stockman with a projected moving face talking about life in as a stockman in the nineteenth century.
Sydney Kidman, who at one time owned hundreds of thousands of square kilometres of western NSW and western Queensland, gets a thorough exposure.
The whole thing is in a very impressive building and it doesn't show any signs of its twelve years of operation. I was surprised to find that it is run without government funds by a company of members much like the Zoo friends. The entry fee is much the same as Taronga Zoo which isn't exorbitant and one can spend so much time soaking up all the information. on offer that your second day is free!.