After breakfast we went into town, as it is Saturday the Post Office, Bank, etc. are closed & the shops  only open until lunchtime.  We went to the Travel Centre and booked a paddle boat and sunset dinner cruise bush entertainment.  After that we went to The Australian Stockman’s Hall of Fame – very interesting, a lot of history of the forefathers/mothers of the outback in a modern big building.  They had an entertaining man show us the skill of his two horses and his sheep dog and 6 huge bullocks.  We had a huge hamburger and chips for lunch and finished looking at the rest of the museum.

We had to stock up on some groceries – lucky IGA supermarket was open (that’s the only big supermarket here).

At 4.30pm a bus picked us up from the front of the caravan park, when we arrived we saw this little old paddle boat (the photographer for the pamphlet must have been very skilled at photo shop).  We had a shiny new bus load of people, amazingly we all fitted on and the fun began.  The captain gave us a wonderful commentary about the Thomson River and the area, a young fellow (dressed to fit into those movies, the paddle boats on the Mississippi) served very nice nibbles. Unfortunately the beautiful sun set didn’t eventuate. It was good chatting to people, where they have been and where they are going and giving us advice about what we must see.  After an hour we docked and the fun really began – Mulligan stew, apple pie and custard followed by damper and billy tea all under a beautiful big star lit sky.  Our multi-talented captain sang Australian folk songs and ballads (with a few American ones thrown in). Then a gentleman called Milton entertained us for the rest of the night by bush poetry.  A great time had by all.