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The road from Kynuna to Winton is a good road (above) but there's nothing exciting to see. The grass plains spread as far as the eye can see.
An amusing sight was the formation of huge balls of grass that gather on the fence posts (left). I guess that stalks of grass are blown onto the wire fence and the wind blows them along to the next post where they gather.
The monotony was broken by a convoy of road trains carrying around twenty or thirty tanks. It was a novelty that justified a picture.
But.... imagine the bang if one fell off.
Or the bank if TWO FELL OFF!
These two tanks seem to have FALLEN OFF! .. but some of the damage suggests that the whole trailer may have rolled over?
They made a bit of a mess of the road but somehow finished up the right way. Good design, or good luck?
Now he's thinking .... how the hell am I going to explain this to the captain?
.. and how the hell are we going to get them back onto the trailer?
"Maybe we could just roll up at the base with the trailer and say "oh shit! where are the tanks?"
Winton - huge wide streets, plenty of hotels, a shop or two, four or five caravan parks but no people!!!
They might be out of town looking at the dinosaur footprints and excavating huge skeletons.
If you do bump into anybody on the footpath, be polite!
Two things that everybody does in Winton:-
1) take a picture of "Arno's Wall" which took
15 years to finish (it goes around the corner for another 50 meters or so). It
does include the kitchen sink, and a concrete mixer.
2) have your photo taken on this big old cart. It carried 9
tons (that's four landcruisers!). The plate reads :-
EARLY MORN
HERB YOUNG'S HORSE DRAWN
WAGON CARTED THE LAST LOAD
OF WOOL TO THE WINTON RAIL HEAD
IN 1936. IT WAS CAPABLE OF CARRYING
A LOAD OF 9 TONS WHEN YOKED
WITH 19 HORSES.
Dino the dinosaur is well trained!
He sits perfectly motionless, just like a statue, until he hears .... .... .... the click of a camera.
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