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20220706 What’s a nice surprise, the pub that burnt down in 2019 has finally been rebuilt and what they built was not what I expected from a quite town of only around 58 people. I was here in 2019 and took photos of the burnt out pub. Although it’s been modernised it was modernised with a real country charm with an added class, definitely a few notched above Morven, which is still a good pub.   Des recons definitely the Bench of Bullshit for me, but we all know who this seat really belongs to, don’t we Scotty. But I don’t think this is me either.😏😬 I found an aerial shot of the burnt out Macca Hotel from 2019, it was destroyed in a matter of minutes when wind blew flames from a fire next door into the pub's air conditioning duct, the community cried as they watched on. Jesus I’d cry to if it was the only Pub for bloody miles, ha Scotty. Wow, what an improvement, we stayed in the camp ground up the road and the town was nothing, it blow’s my mind the difference a l...

20220703 It fells like we are going over the same places, Ooo dear, we are, maybe it’s time to buy an off road, but known how Des feels about his motor home that will never happen, but that’s ok at least we do get to go camping. Into Augathella we go and camped down the back of the Showgrounds where we have our own on suite with a shower, toilet and a wash basin, just so Des can wash the cloths while I collect the wood. A loan butterfly sat and watched the fire with me until I realised it had passed to butterfly heaven, she was so pretty. 20220704 Augathella is rich in history so I might as well unhitch my bike and see what’s lurking in the back streets of this outback town. Augathella is one of those towns we often camp when ever passing this way. Before it was even named Augathella it was just a resting place for bullock teams lying at the convergence of three bullock tracks from Morven, Tambo and Charleville. It was during the late 1800s and early 1900s, the notorious Bushrangers, t...

20220627 Arriving in Tambo for about the third time we decided to stayed in the caravan park to wait out the rain that's heading our way. What can I say about Tambo, it's a lovely town in central West Queensland with a small population, is home to the Tambo Teddy and chicken races at the North Gregory Hotel and there's a new coffee shop on the street, so it does have a bit to offer that weary traveller passing through. The first Post Offices in Tambo was built in 1876 and is now used as a the Museum with some interesting items to view. The wall telephone, powered by dry cells, was an invention of the late 1870s. The first telephones used in Brisbane were imports from the USA and were adjusted to local needs and demands. The first telephones were housed in wood, especially susceptible to cracking in hot and dry regions. Non of these phones would work witout the Switchboard The owner of a telephone would call the exchange and a switchboard operator would answer, the caller wo...

20220627 Now for that 150km trip back to Longreach, stock up on supplies, top up the fuel at $235.9 a letre t hen head back to Ilfrocombe to camp the night. You can tell it's the school holidays due to the influx of caravan's and camper trailers monopolising the towns but my first guess was when we went to the bakery and the line was out the door, it's a busy town in Longreach, we completed our chorse and left for Ilfrocombe. This is one hell of a Swollow's nest I found while walking the streets in Longreach. Get off the road, it's not often they get a police escort so that tells us there's something big coming. I've never seen a wide load that took over both lanes like this one, get off the road Des.  Langenbaker House is a good example of what the buildings were like dating from 1892, made of timber and corrugated iron, it was occupied by the original family until 1991. The veranda features latticework made from hoop iron which was once used to tie wool pa...