6 May 2012 - Richmond to Winton

Time to pack up from Richmond and get to Winton as we had originally planned 3 days ago. We squeezed in our last Fossil Fest event by visiting the Show and Shine vintage car display and grabbing a bacon and egg sandwich down at Fred Tritton Lake.

The trip took roughly 4 hours and we got to Winton mid afternoon. After setting up without the annex, always a quicker set up, we visited the Musical Fence and the original Qantas Airfield. Prior to relocating to Longreach, Qantas first started flying planes to Darwin and Brisbane from Winton.  We managed to get to tourist information before it closed but overall the town centre was dead.

We managed to get some food for dinner from one of the few shops in town and headed back to camp. It was not a very good night for sleeping as some of the town locals decided to have an all night party. With the town being so flat, and nowhere for noise to go except for across town, we had to put up with crap music until 3am. We later found out that despite having 4 police officers in town, they don't work after 8pm - obviously great if you want to play loud music all night.