What a wonderful, interesting place Winton is! After a quick look around yesterday, we decided to stay an extra day so that we could have a proper gander at the place.
We went to look at the main street and called into a little museum to have a look. The museum was really interesting - with heaps of dinosaur bones, opals and opal mining equipment and bits and pieces from years gone by.
We also had a look at "Arno's Wall" - a quite bizarre wall full of all sorts of odds and ends. Very odd indeed!
The main street of Winton is very beautiful and fairly typical of an "outback town". 
This morning we were up at a reasonable time and headed down to the back of the pub to check out the opal sales. The miners were all in town with their opals hoping to sell them. These interesting men have a real passion for this beautiful stone and some of their finds were just magnificent. 
Mum and I picked up a couple of beautiful opal pieces for ourselves and as presents for some family members.
Mum and I picked up a couple of beautiful opal pieces for ourselves and as presents for some family members.After this, we headed out on the road to Lark Quarry. The drive was just over 100km, much of it on dirt roads (lots of deep bulldust and corrugations). When we got out to the quarry, we had lunch and went for a walk. The views were lovely.
After lunch we went to look at the main reason for this trip. The Lark Quarry contains the footprints of a dinosaur stampeded which happened 95 million years ago. A big shed has been built over the site to protect it from erosion -but it just wonderful to see the real footprints of a herd of stampeding dinosaurs from so long ago. The stampede was caused by the arrival of a big carnivorous dinosaur - and its footprints are very obvious.
When the big dinosaur appeared, hundreds of small dinosaurs stampeded in an effort to get away. Their small footprints are clear in the rock.
We really enjoyed seeing this wonderful sight and would recomend it to anyone.
After a long drive back, we finally got home in time to enjoy some pizzas for dinner. Tomorrow we move on to Longreach.
Hi to everyone reading the blog - I really hope you are enjoying the tales of our travels. Hi to Bethanie in Slovenia and to Sheree who is in hospital in Coffs Harbour.
2 comments:
Hi guys
Had missed the regular updates, while you were out on Lawn Hill detour. It is amazing to travel with you...vicariously. I have spent the day getting my photos off to be printed, got it down to less than 400, which is a mean feat. Have been working on the annotations today, thank god for the blog and the web, in being able to assist dredging the memory. Enjoy the last weeks Ned and everyone, it is a great trip to have done. Thanks for taking the time to share.
im in slovakia you great oaf!
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