Mackay / Townsville

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‘…Australia is an amazing diverse country too beautiful not to share with the world! … ‘

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Aussie Stories - telling about Australia in words and pictures

Peaceful serenity at Kinchant Dam, near Mackay, Queensland, Australia.
Peaceful serenity at Kinchant Dam, near Mackay, Queensland, Australia. Classic silhouetted shot of palm trees overlooking the Kinchant Dam lake, near Mackay. 2014.
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The Kinchant Dam was built in 1977 to provide irrigation & town water for Mackay and surrounding regions. It dams the Sandy Creek and holds about 62 800 megalitres of water. It is about 40 kilometres west of Mackay. You can use it for watersports – a concrete boat ramp is provided – camping, fishing, swimming…

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Rustic fence and gate, at Aramac, south west of Townsville.
Rustic fence and gate, at the tiny, remote rural town of Aramac, about 560 kilometres south west of Townsville. December 2022.
Copyright © Cheryl Larsen Used by permission.
Canefields in the shadow of the mountains, Queensland, Australia.
Canefields in the shadow of the mountains, Queensland, Australia. Canefields, with the mountains in the distant. Original painting by Leonard Long.
Copyright © ThisisAustralia.com.au From a private collection. Used by permission.

Leonard Long was an Australian painter best known for his landscape paintings of the outback rendered in a painterly realist style.

Long often focused on rivers and gorges in his landscapes, charmed by the curve of space and atmosphere revealed as these bodies of water trailed off into the distance. He was profoundly influenced by the earlier work of the Heidelberg School of painters in Australia, which included Arthur Streeton and Charles Conder.

Born on April 25, 1911 in Summer Hill, Australia, Long worked as a watchmaker during his early adulthood while painting during his spare time. It was not until 1955 when Long sold his watchmaking business that he was able to devote himself fully to painting. He painted alongside and became friends with the celebrated Aboriginal Australian artist Albert Namatjira, who also specialized in painting landscapes of the bush country.

Today, Long’s works are in the collections of the Vatican in Rome, the National Gallery Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, and the Dunedin Public Art Gallery in New Zealand, among others.

The artist died on November 3, 2013 in Melbourne, Australia at the age of 102.

Taken from Leonard Long | Artnet

From almost atop the mountain on Palm Island, looking northwest. Queensland, Australia.
From almost atop the mountain on Palm Island, looking northwest. Queensland, Australia.
Copyright © Anna Biram Used by permission.

Two boys at the top of the mountain on Palm Island, near Townsville. At the end of a four wheel drive track. They are looking northwest over the township and the neighbouring islands towards Minchinbrook Island in the far distance. Spectacular scenery! February 2017.

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The Palm Island community is an indigenous community made up of very friendly people, but is a troubled community.

Aussie Stories - telling about Australia in words and pictures

Aussie Stories - telling about Australia in words and pictures

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