This is a museum with 5 themed galleries displaying some of Australia's greatest explorers, Aborigines, stock workers and pastoralists.
We strolled through the displays, but as the lady said at the counter on the way in, "You might need more than one day to see it all." Our old eyes found it hard to read some of the information as the lighting was a bit dim in places. I will just show you some of the highlights.
It is a huge place.
Inside the displays included a traders wagon,
A huge bullock cart,
A wool press,
and a Furphy.
It also had lots of information boards and this one tells us the story of how a rumour came to be named a furphy.
Interactive displays told us about all manner of things. This one was about pests and plagues with movies of mouse and locust plagues.
A pioneer kitchen. It is scary how much of this stuff is familiar to us.
A display of post office and telephone equipment.
After a cup of coffee, we all went outside to watch the outback show. This man had some very funny jokes, and his horse was very well trained. Here he is lining the horse up to pick his hat up for him.
He rode around telling us stories and jokes.
Then he had some long involved story about jumping naked over the chairs. Something like bareback, no saddle, no bridle etc.
No saddle, no bridle, no horse...
No saddle, no bridle and no rider.
Then he brought his other horse over with some long story about how to ride a wild horse. He put a blanket on the horses back and the horse pulle it off. Then he put a saddle on it's back and the horse lay down because it did not want to be ridden.
After that story he brought out the camel.
And told another funny story about what the camel said. Memory is a bit bad about this joke, but the camel told it very well. Here he is telling us the story.
Then he asked his dog to go and get some cattle. He counted out on his fingers how many he wanted.
And here they come. They are very big and have horns.
They all lined up and he hitched them into a team, just like they used to do in pioneer days.
They walked out of the yard and he hitched them to a log, which they dragged back into the show ring. He showed us how easy it was to get the log onto the wagon. Very interesting.
After the show we walked over and had a beefburger at the Cattlemans Bar and Grill. We went back inside the Hall to finish looking at the exhibits. It was quite late when we left there and it does take a long time to get around and see it all.
Later that day after a rest at our unit, we went down to the Iningai Park Nature Reserve to hopefully spot some birds or wildlife. We did see some kangaroos, but they were a long ways off. We chatted to an old man who had planted some red gums about 7 or 8 years ago. He had a long term view of things as he said, "they will look really good in another 30 or 40 years time!" There is no way he will last long enough to see that. He told us he had seen emus with chicks at that spot yesterday, but of course there was no sign of them while we were there. The men rested under a coolibah tree, while Judith and I did some exploring.
That was about it for that long day. We are all sleeping well, but wake very early.
I hope you are enjoying my tales. Tomorrow, I will show you some pictures of our trip to the Qantas Air Museum.
Bye for now and have a good day.
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