Peter Hagan and Adam Pulitano from Bus Queensland, Alyssa de Laurence and Sid Konnur from Queensland Rail, Clare Nash and Steve Jones from Skytrans and Kai Ostermann, Regional Director Europe from Tourism Queensland were on parade with us, Out the Back Australia!
All of our guests arrived on Friday, but they were fit enough to make their first experiences with Queensland’s outback.
As we prefer small groups to guaranty for an individual and personal trip, we split them up into a kayaking group and second one, that did the river cruise.
Linda went kayaking and I had the honour to go on a boat cruise with Leesa Smith (tour guide), Chris Webster (owner Rocky Station), Steve, Clare and Kai!
It was just beautiful to see the sunset beyond the trees and to breathe the fresh cool air.
The roaming sunrays touched only half of the crowns of the trees so they created a really special scenery. It seemed they would have been illuminated by single lights direct in front of them.
We saw a lot of birds, which was especially for Kai, as a passionate bird watcher, a must have. Our group was chatting and laughing all the time, discovering and joking about the Australian slang and wildlife. At this point I won’t repeat what was said … !
The selection of drinks and snacks found good response as we had a plate with crackers, salami, cheese and tomatoes, and red or white wine, different kinds of beer and soft drinks. Sounds nearly like tea, hm? It does especially when I think about the other group, paddling at the other side of the great Warrego River.
After they got changed and we got sorted we went to the bowls club, to have a game with the locals. The teams were mixed of locals and visitors, so there were a lot of opportunities to get to know each other. For that ones, who were focused on winning or even focused in how to bowl the ball, there was another chance at dinner to hang around and chat with the lovely citizens of Cunnamulla.
The food was just awesome and we experienced a great hospitality. Thanks to everyone who was involved.
It was fun for all of us, especially for those ones, who haven’t played bowl before. Like Alyssa, who got personal training by father Rod, THE ex-champ per se.
She thanked him for that in front of the completely audience while her presentation at the evening.
Also Kai, Peter and Steve had a presentation about what their company is doing, recent reports and what their plans for future are.
Kai gave an insight of what it means for a company to make international marketing and to work international.
All presentations were really interesting and not only for our locals rich of information (also for German tourism students).
After being fed, learning a lot and getting thirsty, we decided together with the majority of our representatives to have a few drinks at a pub in town.
We didn’t stay that long, because it was a really long day and the pub closes at twelve anyway.
This was pretty good start into a weekend full of action and new experiences!
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