Nice lazy get up late...ish!
Headed off to the ladies loo and ran into a lady we know from Condobolin. Very small world people.
When I got over the surprise we went out and saw the two big attractions that Cloncurry has to offer. First up was the Mary Kathleen memorial site. Mary Kathleen was Australias first uranium mine, it was situated 65kms west of Cloncury on the Mt Isa road, long since closed and merely a memory now, but they have some of the original town buildings here in Cloncurry in a memorial park. Very interesting.
From there we went to the John Flynn Museum. John Flynn wanted to put a 'mantle of safety' over the inland of Australia and from that small idea came the RFDS. The first ever RFDS flight was in a chartered Qantas plane out of Cloncurry. That was all a very long long time ago. The man was a visionary as well as a missionary for the A.I.M which stands for The Australian Inland Misson, a group formed by the Presbyterian Church. Today I saw a genuine pedal radio which is another one of Flynns ideas, creating a way that isolated familes could talk to each other and call for help when there was an emergency on their property.
The Rev. John Flynn was a very special person.
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