From Barcaldine we drove on to Longreach arriving here late this afternoon so we are staying two nights.
This evening we went on a sunset dinner cruise on the Thomson River. When we arrived at our motel and enquired at the reception about the cruises and were told they were all booked out for tonight and tomorrow. I decided to ring up anyway and the lady in the office said there was a cruise about to depart and if we were ready she would come to our motel, pick us up and drive us to the river where the boat was. She picked us up in the company mini bus and drove us out to the boat.We enjoyed a lovely evening cruise, watched a magical sunset, saw an almost full moon and saw some turtles in a small turtle rookery. After sunset we had a two course dinner on board the boat as it meandered along the river. A bus took us back to our accommodation at the end of the cruise.