In the morning we walked around the town then went to the Stockman’s Hall of Fame. There, we learnt that Australia provides 96% of the worlds opal! We also heard lots of stories about the early settlers in outback Queensland, and how tough it was. Sometimes they use a helicopter to drove cattle, but most of the time they just drove on horse back.

After that we went to the QANTAS (Queensland and Northern Territory Arial Services) museum.
Some men that were pilots in the first world war returned to Outback Queensland and realized that there was a future for aeroplanes in the outback, because of the long traveling distances and poor roads. They ended up starting up a company called QANTAS. At first their company nearly went bust a couple of times because people were too frightened to fly in the old planes. The company survived because the government got them to do a mail run by air. But eventually it became more and more successful and became the international airline we know today. We saw a video about one of the first female pilots. She said that when there was a scared passenger on board, she’d fly low so they could see the telegraph poles and things and they would be fine. But when she took them higher, which is safer, they would get really scared again. She also said that once there was a man on the phone to the manager that really needed to get some where on time, but there was no set flight, when she, the pilot, walked in the manager said to the man on the phone, “hold on the pilots just walked in, I’ll put her on.”
He handed her the phone And she said, “hello.”
There was silence, then he said,”by golly, it’s a woman!”
Woman pilots were very rare!

We then went back to the caravan and packed up, ready to leave early.
Tara

This would probably of been what an early settlers place would have looked like.

This is the female pilot.