First up this morning was the weather balloon release by the bureau of meteorology. The balloon is launched automatically each morning at 9.15 to collect data, such as, temperature, wind direction and speed in the local area. This information is then used to forecast the weather. Next stop The Royal Flying Doctor Information Centre where we watched a short film about the modern RFDS and then looked at the information boards about RFDS in the past. Back in the car and 27km down the road to Angellala Bridge Explosion Site. At 9.50pm on 5 September 2014 a truck carrying 53 tonnes of ammonium nitrate caught fire, crashed and exploded on the bridge at Angellala Creek. The blast radius was huge and the impact was felt in Charleville, who thought it was an earthquake. The explosion destroyed both road and railway bridges and injured 8 people. The explosion also damaged fire trucks and police vehicles on the way to help. Unbelievably no-one was killed. The road bridge has been rebuilt but the rail bridge has been left and a monument erected nearby. Returned to the van for a well earned afternoon off.
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