Winton and Plenty Highway

Winton, like Longreach, had loads to offer. We saw the Waltzing Matilda Museum which gives more information, and renditions of the song, than you would ever want. It was aparently written in Winton, or maybe sung there originally (the info over-load seems to have overwritten what I learned there!).

We also went to see some awesome dino tracks and to a random museum that had pioneering info, as well as a big chunk on dinosaurs. Maybe the highlight of our sightseeing was "(probably) the World's biggest deckchair" in the open air deckchair cinema. As you can see, it's big. We even got to see a screening of some Popeye at the cinema one evening!

We had our first taste of 4wd-ing in Central Australia on the Plenty Highway which went from the tiny, friendly town of Boulia to Alice Springs. All in all it took 10.5 hrs (better than the 13 h estimates we were hearing) and we did it in one day and got bogged in a semi-dried mud pit once. It was great fun! We even got to see 'roos jumping alongside us at dawn.