A re-enactment of what is thought to be world's longest continuoustaxi fare is making its way through western Queensland.In 1930, a wealthy spinster asked taxi driver Charlie Heard to takeher from Geelong, south-west of Melbourne, to Darwin and back.
The taxi driver's grandson Steve Heard is now retracing the 12,000kilometre path and arrived in Mt Isa yesterday.
"My grandfather, he took a camera with him and he took photos ofhis trip everywhere he went and made a photo album of the trip," hesaid.
"This particular photo album got misplaced. Basically forgottenabout and then when my dad passed away my aunty handed this photoalbum back to me. At that time I thought 'yep, I'm going to dothat'."
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