The wind kept up all night!
We got up and got organised pretty quickly and headed off for Winton, well the Australian Age of Dinosaurs to be exact.
Yet again the road was very long and straight with a substantial scattering of road kill. We found that it was very fitting to play the James Blundell and James Reyne hit of 'Way out West', of course we had to sing a long - Finn simply rolled his eyes (do you blame him).
There were plenty more Road Trains - and heaps of Tumbleweed - which just makes me simile (yes I am strange!).
We saw a lot of Emu on the trip to Winton - or is the plural Emus? And what is a group of them called? A flock, a gaggle, a murder? Hmm - remind me to look it up when I finish blogging!
Once you leave the Highway and head towards the Age of Dino's (as Finn preferred), it was a very cool dirt road drive followed by the 'Jump-up' - I was curious as to what this meant after reading about it on Trip Adviser. It is just a dirt road that goes up to a plateau which is home to Age of Dino's.
I would have heaps of photos to show you but we are having technical difficulties at this time……
Anyway - we did the tour, and saw the laboratory where they clean the bones that have been found - to me it looked like they were cleaning rock (which is why I wasn't the one doing it!).
We were able to touch the fossils of shells that were over 100,000,000 years old! WOW
We had told Finn to listen and put up his hand if he wanted to ask any questions, of course as soon as the guide asked if anyone had questions his hand shot up!
His first question was: 'how did the dinosaurs die'? I was even surprised by the answer - I thought it was simply because of the ice age - however the tour guide said that it is believed that it was because of a meteorite! See you learn something new everyday!
After the Lab tour we had the tour of the 'reception' area, apparently the part we saw so many other museums etc want to have one but they can't - the Age of Dinosours has fossils of dinosaurs that have not been found anywhere else (EVER), and that is why they can have this kind of 'special' room (there are more technical terms but I can't remember….old age).
We all found it AMAZING! I would highly recommend going there to anyone, the fact that they are kind of remote up on a plateau makes you feel like you are in another world!.
After that we headed back to Longreach, went for a walk and had a swim (in a sub zero pool, funny story….yesterday Shan went for a run and when he came back I told him to jump in cos it was 'lovely', well strangely for the first time ever, he did what I told him and jumped in, I have NEVER seen anyone look so shocked, lol it was FREEZING).
Oh I nearly forgot to tell you about the tow vehicle next door….Mr Bunnings (aka Uncle Tony), I wish you hadn't replaced your vehicle so soon, I have found you a replacement! (strangely this is one of the few photos we can actually upload at the moment)…..
Anyway off to bed now, we have to be up early tomorrow as we are going on a Cobb and Co. Mail Run Gallop! on the actual run that they did back in the day! The ticket is even an exact replica of the one that you would have received way back then!
Till tomorrow
The Wanderin' Watsons
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