We spent a delightful two nights in the Bladensberg National Park, 25km from Winton. Just the sort of camping that we love - perched on the riverbank among gum trees with only a handful of other campers all spaced out that that no-one was too close to the other. The drove out to Lark Quarry (LH picture), 220km round trip, where there is the only known documentaation of a dinosaur stampede in the world. The building has been built over the tracks to preserve them. There are 3000 footprints of 5 or 6 different species of dinosaur - they have discovered that they were drinking at a waterhole 95 million years ago when a large dinosaur (RH picture shows tracks) came looking for a feed - the smaller ones panicked and the tracks are going every whichway. Not only have they identified the species, but they can also tell how fast they were running - just amazing! Then spent the balance of our time in the national park finishing our books before we leave for home.
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