Geoffs Life After Work !

Winton Founder of Qantas

This is a great small country town! We were treated to anight of nostalgia at an original 1918 open air cinema (NOT a drive in) where the seats are deck chairs and in fron of the big screen is a roller skating rink !! Movies were short and from the 40s PLUS we stood up for the Queen !! something I haven’t seen since a kid !!Popeye was the feature warm up cartoon The more than a billion stars above were a fantastic backdrop to th whole evening It events like this that made me realize what a great country Australia is !! The cinema also boasts the biggest deckchair made in the world just a little history on WINTON ….Winton is the birth place of Qantas, Winton’s principle claim to fame is that an incident at the nearby Combo Waterhole at Dagworth Station is said to be the stimulus behind the uniquely Australian anthem ‘Waltzing Matilda’.
A statue to the ‘Swagman’ , the unfortunate tramp who was drowned, has been erected in honour of the legendary Banjo Patterson song., and of late the source of major dinosaur fossils finds.

Next blog is Ano,s Wall what a fascinating topic can only be viewed in a slide show !!

July 28, 2011 - Posted by Luxxys Lovely Lived Life | Uncategorized