A spray unit - looks space age

Farming equipment

A big baler, used for hay and other crops

As you can see around Toowoomba they grow all sorts of crops - Trev is here with the mung beans

"Corn for tea"

Trev in the millett

Looking over Toowoomba from Picnic Point

Bruce, rather wet as you can see

Trev went with a farming friend south west of Toowoomba, this wheat crop had been flattened and was so wet it had started to shoot

These two murals are out west of Toowoomba

Trev hiding in the sunflowers - A little ray of sunshine!

Toowoomba area

Trevor playing in the maize crop

Toowoomba

Just a few silos of grain - from sunflower seeds, cannola, mung beans, wheat,corn to maize

Roma

We went to an outdoor night show at the Big Rig, which was all about the discover of oil and gas in Roma

Charleville

This scientist was bought to the town to try to make it rain duing a drought, he used 6 Vortex Guns (cannons)

This truck driver refferred to us as 'Yowies' when the back escort policeman stopped to explain to us what had happened and that they didn't have far to go. He didn't realise we were listening to him via the hand held radio!

This big machine had blown two tyres and they had the axles tied up, hence the police escort and back up escort.

Water coming up from the Great Artesian Basin. At some of the caravan parks along the way, we turn off the hot water system so we have some cold water, as all tap water is hot and the day temp was 40deg plus.

The wool was compressed and then recompressed in this special type of press

Part of the wool scouring plant where the wool was washed with water from the Great Artesian Basin, which comes to the surface at the right temperature for this process.

The wool was shipped to England for further processing, being lighter after the washing process.

This is a 20 stand shearing shed

Blackall Woolscouring Shed

Some of the equipment at the woolscouring shed

Sadly the building was much better than the dismal display inside, the old school next door was much more interesting

more machinery at the mile

still at the machinery mile

The machinery mile at Ilfracombe

Longreach

The first power house to use coal, they were engine driven generators using fuel made from coal. This is a generator

The engine to drive the generators (diesel engines) The fuel was made from coal - Trev is not too sure how this was done, doesn't anyone else know?

The building was very impressive - we felt better than the actual displays, although it was interesting, we would have liked to have seen more about the stockman I guess. The two big picture screens weren't working, you can see one of them, centre and to the right at the back.

An inside shot

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A bigger and better photo

Longreach - Stockman's Hall of Fame

A beautifully designed building

Qantas Museum

A closer view of the glueing. As you probably have guessed we really enjoyed this museum

On the left is the planks of wood being glued together, on the right is the propeller , glue together and shaped, if you zoom in on the prop you can see the planks

You could get this bus - taxi from Longreach out to the airport, I imagine it was prettty classy in its day.

He thinks he can fly anything now!

Longreach Qantas Museum

A few instruments used to fly the plane, hopefully Piet (a pilot with South African Airlines) or Malc (Trev's brother) can fill us in on these bits and pieces. My guess is they are not as important as the food pantry on board!

Something - a part of the plane -I will edit this when I have asked Trev exactly what it is

"Yes a coffee before I take off would be nice thanks"

"What we are not really going to fly this plane are we?"

A young boy who is going to become a pilot standing in the engine, which cost $6million each when they were new!

Trev also toured this plane "City of Canberra" I had coffee!

Longreach

Trev did a wing walk on the 707

Longreach Qantas Musuem

Trev's car parked in front of the 747 which we toured. It was named "The City of Bunbury", a great tour and a great museum. We got a pass out so we could go back the next day.

Longreach

Budgies on the fence and a lovely green crop of feed in the background, it is watered from the river we guessed

The Thomson River at Longreach, it always looks muddy so the locals tell us, but there are redclaw in there - "where's the cat food and nets"

Four by four truck in the Waltzing Matilda museum

I need to lose some of this extra weight!