Wonderful Winton

 
 
 

Melanie Hall is a poet who tours around Australia – she is wonderful! For the two nights that we were at Winton, we went and watched Melanie perform. I was in two plays – the first night I was dressed up as the boy from the Bush Christening and got wet by her drink bottle as she ‘Christened’ me.

On the second night I was a red back spider and bit Dad (who was a sheila) on the bottom !!!

Banjo Patterson wrote “Waltzing Matilda” in the Winton area and there is a statue of him in the main street as well as monuments about the actual song.

The musical fence was interesting as you could grab a stick, a hose or a piece of pipe to bang on the fence wire. The sound boxes above the fence made the sound louder.

Dad found a green tree frog in the power connection box and he was cute. Dad wanted to name him Fredrick or Fredo, but I chose Fred. I wanted to bring him home as a pet, but Mum and Dad didn’t think this was a good idea, so he stayed in Winton. On the day we packed up, he was no longer in the power connection box. James and I looked everywhere for him, but we couldn’t find him anywhere.

There was a crazy man named Arno who had made a crazy wall out of junk !!! We had quick look at it, but couldn’t quite work out why it was on the “must see” list of things to do in Winton.

We had a great time in Winton and have just arrived in Mount Isa for a bit of a rest before we travel to the Northern Territory (Tennant Creek).