MONOPOLY MATT
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Matts favourite game would have to be monopoly. Throughout the trip it was agreed that should it rain it would be deemed a “Monopoly Day”. There weren’t a lot of rain days but Matt can be quite pushy & as a result we completed the following Monopoly tournaments;. ‘The Outback Challenge’, ‘The Top End Challenge’, The East Coast Challenge’ & ‘The West Coast Challenge’ each challenge consisting of three or four games. For each challenge Kaz was persuaded to construct a graph that showed the winner of each game & progressive point scores.
WALTZING MATILDA
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Winton is the home of Waltzing Matilda. This old sign shows that the actual place where Banjo wrote the iconic poem is 2 Miles from here.
BANJO PATTERSON
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The stories of yesteryear are quite interesting & Winton is a great town that is very proud of its heritage past. If you look at a map you will see that Winton is about dead centre of Queensland.
THE SHED
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We were told that it was a must do that we stayed at a particular van park whilst in Winton. Every night throughout the tourist season these two women put on a fantastic show. Primarily they are bush poets, but it is not just the poetry that it great ,these two mix it up with terrific stories of the bush & of their travels & humour that literally brings tears to the eyes.
KEEPING UP WITH THE JONES’S
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We had covered almost 40,000kms & we had met many people on tour, several of which we caught up with again on the other side of the country. Since our departure we had not however seen anyone that we already knew; that was until we bumped into the Jones’s . Pat & Bill are parents of the Jones girls that myself, my brother & my sister used to play with. They are fabulous people & it was great to catch up with the both of them. Bill once played for the Roosters whilst Pat has always been very much involved in Water Polo & has received several awards for her contribution to the game. The following morning they were to head for the winter warmth of Darwin.
Matts favourite game would have to be monopoly. Throughout the trip it was agreed that should it rain it would be deemed a “Monopoly Day”. There weren’t a lot of rain days but Matt can be quite pushy & as a result we completed the following Monopoly tournaments;. ‘The Outback Challenge’, ‘The Top End Challenge’, The East Coast Challenge’ & ‘The West Coast Challenge’ each challenge consisting of three or four games. For each challenge Kaz was persuaded to construct a graph that showed the winner of each game & progressive point scores.
WALTZING MATILDA
Winton is the home of Waltzing Matilda. This old sign shows that the actual place where Banjo wrote the iconic poem is 2 Miles from here.
BANJO PATTERSON
The stories of yesteryear are quite interesting & Winton is a great town that is very proud of its heritage past. If you look at a map you will see that Winton is about dead centre of Queensland.
THE SHED
We were told that it was a must do that we stayed at a particular van park whilst in Winton. Every night throughout the tourist season these two women put on a fantastic show. Primarily they are bush poets, but it is not just the poetry that it great ,these two mix it up with terrific stories of the bush & of their travels & humour that literally brings tears to the eyes.
KEEPING UP WITH THE JONES’S
We had covered almost 40,000kms & we had met many people on tour, several of which we caught up with again on the other side of the country. Since our departure we had not however seen anyone that we already knew; that was until we bumped into the Jones’s . Pat & Bill are parents of the Jones girls that myself, my brother & my sister used to play with. They are fabulous people & it was great to catch up with the both of them. Bill once played for the Roosters whilst Pat has always been very much involved in Water Polo & has received several awards for her contribution to the game. The following morning they were to head for the winter warmth of Darwin.
