Townsville to Richmond 500km

The day started off pleasant enough, but the dark clouds gathered rapidly and the rain came down, those unprepared had a quick scramble for wet weather gear. An hour and a half in some light rain yielded to a pristine warm 30 degree afternoon.

The traffic was quite heavy and the road trains were stating to appear.

Found the start of the NBN – in the middle of no-where

Lunch FJ Holdens – a very Holden themed Food Bar in Hughenden

Looked around the Dinosaur exhibition in Richmond…fascinating to think that there were 110 million year old sea creatures in this region, apparently Australia’s fossil mecca.

To think these creature dominated this area for 10 million years and the water here was 40 metres deep, currently at an elevation of 295m

We popped into the local at Richmond to find a large number of Cattlemen and women concluding the beef crisis talks.

The Local

They certainly have a tough life – with some stock getting only $50 for a 500kg animal, not even enough to pay for the transport to the sale yard. With the reduction of live beef exports and large areas being effected by drought they were looking for solutions to save their livelihoods

Under pressure but still love their farming and the animals they rear

We could help them directly by: Supporting live exports and buying Australian produce.

An interesting comment by one farmer, we don’t raise cattle, we grow grass, cattle are the bi-product.