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After spending the last day around Winton we headed off to Alpha on Friday and checked in at the Morris/Kettle household. Had a great day around Alpha and had a Pizza night with some friends on Saturday before heading off early Sunday for the 900klm trip home.
Saw lots and lots of kangaroos, cattle, echidnas, plain turkeys etc on the way home but none suffered the indignity of being run over by Kate (the Land Rover).
Home late this evening, unpacked already and feet up. Work tomorrow!!!!

Well that's it for another year.... I wonder where to next year?????

Kronosaurus

Julia Creek

What can I say?

Mt Isa

Afternoon BBQ at Moondarra Dam Mt Isa.

Aliens!!!!

Wycliffe Well the aliens landing site

NT to QLD

Over the last three days we have put our heads down and bums up and traveled from Alice Springs to Winton and seen what we can en route.
The reason being certain event attendances have put us behind, like the Camel Cup
:-) etc.
So on Sunday we drove from Alice to Barkley Downs, ( half way along the Barkley highway from the Threeways to Mt ISA) we dropped into Wycliffe Well and read all about the UFO sitings that have occurred in the last 20 years around the area. If what is written is to be believed we are only a few months short of being invaded by aliens.
Monday we left from Barkley to Mt ISA and spent the afternoon at the Moondarra Dam with a late lunch and a relax. A cool ( read cold) night in the tent and early off to the Dinosaur Trail Tuesday.
Tuesday we went straight to Richmond and the Kronosaurus Korner is really worth seeing. We then headed to Hughenden and to the visitor information centre where they have the full size skeletal display of the Muttaburrasaurus. A late afternoon run then to Winton and camp setup in the dark. Another cold night.
Today we spent the day out of town at the Lark Quarry where the only discovered " trackways" are found. The tracks show over 3000 footprints of around 150 dinosaur in a stampede when a large carnivorous dinosaur came across the group, along with the Australia Age of Dinosaur display ( working paleontologists centre) made for an extremely interesting day. The discovery of two new dinosaur species have made this centre very famous. The first being BANJO a Australovenator Wintonensis, and MATILDA a Diamantinasaurus Matildae. The dinosaur remains found in this area are largely land animals where the remains found in Richmond area are sea animals. There is only 200 klms that separate the two and these are all phenomenal displays when you consider we are hundreds of kilometers away from anywhere. A must see if you have kids.
Tomorrow an very easy day around town visiting the local sites before packing up and heading off to Josh's for a day or two before home on Sunday.

Desert Pea