Today we went to the Cunnamulla Fella Center. The Cunnamulla Fella refers to the young people who worked mustering sheep and squatting around campfire after work. This industry was booming and was the primary source of the town. At the Cunnamulla Fella Center there was a museum about the old sheering methods and the manual telephone exchange. There was a huge model of the homesteads and sheering sheds that they used to have. I found out that the old telephone exchange at the end of our road (Kapaldo Road) was one of the last manual telephone exchanges running (according to my dad). There was also a pretend time machine that you step into and then out the other side where there was information about the artesian basin and how it was formed by many layers of sandstone and gravel. After we left Cunnamulla we went to Eulo where there was a statue of a Diprotodon. We then went to Thargomindah and stayed the night. I wish we could of stayed at Thargomindah longer.
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