Longreach is a town in the central west of Queensland. We always called it central Qld but sometime along the line that title has been afforded to Rockhampton on the central east coast.
It is in the sheep & wool area with some cattle & these days quite a bit of tourism.
The photo's date back to the early 1950s and the house has been replaced but the land has been built up & no the house never had water over the floor boards.
The canoes were not common & that at the time would have the been only one localy.They were about 2mt long X 1.2 mt wide x 0.4 mt deep. A fully cane/bamboo frame with canvas skin & a lift in/out wooden flat floor.
She did have a watertank it was in the end of the house with the sheeting going to ground(more like a shed on the end of the house) as it kept the water cooler.
We all had water tanks & in the long drought years ,7 years when I was at school, we would fill them with the piped riverwater & add ebsonsalts to clear it.
We also had arteasian water piped it being hot mineral water was soft,didn't need to be pumped & lovely to soak in in the bathtub.
The town is a bit under 5 km from the Thompson river but when in flood the river spreads up to 14 to 16 km wide in an average flood
& in the one shown it was 50 km wide.
Anything further free free to ask as I can rabbit on for hours about the back country.
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