According to Wikipedia, Longreach is a town located in central western Queensland, Australia and is approximately 700 kilometres from the coast, west of Rockhampton. The town is named after the 'long reach' of the Thomson River on which it is situated and was gazetted a town in 1887. In 1892, the railway reached the town, and the population began to grow. It is the administrative centre of the Longreach Local Government Area.
If you read further, you'll find that Longreach is also the home of Qantas Founders Outback Museum, which has some of the world's most awesome collection of aircraft. And a big-a** Boeing 747-200, a retiree from the national airline of the country. You probably don't wanna miss out the Australian Stockman's Hall of Fame, where you get to know some history about famous Aussie stockmen and Aborigines.
Most importantly this is the place where Glenn grew up, and where I made a few doggy friends.
Here are some pictures of the business district, a.k.a. where all the shops are.
Antique bicycle outside a pub
Seafood shop, yummmm........
A place where the locals bowl
Must have hotel & dentist too
Most importantly the booze... burp...This time I didn't have any pictures of the museums (because we went to both museums few years ago), so I had to go 'borrow' from Reef n Outback Rail Tours and Australian Traveller.
Australian Stockman's Hall of Fame
(picture from www.reefnoutback.com.au)
Australian Stockman's Hall of Fame(picture from www.reefnoutback.com.au)
Qantas Founders Outback Museum(picture from www.australiantraveller.com)
So if you happened to be holidaying in Queensland, or living in Australia, and would love see more stuff down-under-ish, or outback-ish, Longreach is always there for ya. (wonder why this ended up like an tourism board advertisement)
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