We'll visit the fascinating Powerhouse Museum as well as the Longreach Pastoral College and the School of Distance Education. And no visit to Longreach would he complete without a visit to the Hall of Fame. Ilfracombe and the Wellshot Hotel, and Barcaldine are our next stops. Barcaldine is a pretty little town and here we see the Australian Workers Heritage centre and the Tree of Knowledge. Avington Station on the Barcoo River is where we spend the night and hear stories of times past and try to fathom Des' coin tricks.
Dinner is enjoyed with our hosts.
After breakfast and a short tour of the station, we head for Emerald and the Fairbairn Dam for wine, cheese and bickies and to watch the sunset over the water. We stay the night in Emerald and proceed to Eungella and the Broken River Mountain Retreat for the night. You might even get to see the elusive and playful platypus. North along the coast, we'll lunch at the Peter Faust Dam at Proserpine and stop at the wondrous rock collection at Ashworths in Home Hill.