Bowenwood
Maybe it didn’t end up the smash international success that many locals were hoping for, and maybe there’s not much that’s recognisably Bowen in there, but it’ll be a while before we forget six weeks in mid-2007.
For six weeks, three hectares at the bottom of Bowen’s main street was transformed into the set for Baz Luhrmann’s movie, Australia. I was one of a hundred locals who volunteered to explain what was going on to the hordes who descended on the town to see what was going on.
Originally published on another site that’s long since gone belly-up, but preserved here for posterity.
