Planes, tractors and hall of fame feature on outback trip

[Kit Kat]

DAY three of our Outback Odyssey sees us using what would be the first of many caravan parks that we would use during the trip.

We stopped at Barcaldine to visit the Workers Heritage Centre and Tree of Knowledge, under which the Australian Labor Party was established all those years ago.

We wondered what the Labor Party forefathers would have thought about the direction the party had taken.

The original Tree of Knowledge was poisioned a number of years back and a new tree has been promulgated from its DNA and is being nurtured in the Workers Heritage Centre.

It is appropriately called: "the Young'un".

After a good look around we headed off to our first overnight stop at a caravan park.

As we travel, we tend to use caravan parks in the smaller towns to use as our base for exploring the areas.

And this trip was to be no different.

We wanted to spend a few days exploring the Longreach area and decided the perfect place to set up camp would be the small town of Ilfracombe, some 27km east of Longreach.

Caravan parks in the smaller regional centres tend to be a bit quieter and sometimes cheaper than those in the major centres.

Source: News Mail. Read more here: http://www.news-mail.com.au/news/day-th ... y/1860076/