There seems to be quite a bit of tourist traffic moving through country Queensland. Lots of grey nomads, quite a few on motorbikes. We haven't seen this much traffic since we left Perth.
Queensland country towns all have their museums and attractions and I wanted to take the kids into a few, however the prices have been ridiculous! There's the Waltzing Matilda Museum in Winton as well as a dinosaur museum. Longreach has The Stockmens Hall of Fame and the Qantas Founders Museum. Should I have to pay more than $50 to let my family look through a few displays on the history of the town?!
We've just left the Qantas museum in Longreach where it is $70 for the family to look at the displays. This price does not include a walk through of the 747. You have to pay more to do that. We looked for free over the fence.
If it didn't cost so much to see these attractions we might hang around and stay in these towns rather than passing through. Wouldn't that be better for their economies?
Maybe I'm just tired and complacent. We've been traveling for 3 months now and it feels like we're almost home but it's still so far.
Lucky for the boys there was a fantastic collection of old farming machines and diggers along the main street of Ilfracombe and they were free to climb on!
We're at a nice free camp tonight in Jericho and we'll head towards Emerald in the morning.
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