Richmond is situated on the Overlander's Way halfway between Townsville and Mt Isa the town is located on the banks of Queensland's longest river, the Flinders, and is known for its marine fossils, recreational Lake Fred Tritton and bougainvillea lined streets, parks and gardens. Here, we visited the second part to Australia’s Dinosaur Trail, Kronosaurus Korner.
The friendly, picturesque town of Winton, has strong links
to Waltzing Matilda, Qantas, and dinosaurs. It is probably best known as the
place where ‘Banjo’ Paterson wrote Australia’s unofficial national anthem
“Waltzing Matilda” in 1895. Just as significantly, the first board meeting of
Qantas was held at the Winton Club in 1921, marking Winton as the Birthplace of
Qantas. However, long before indigenous Australians and the white settlers
walked in Winton, the dinosaurs called this land home.
The morning of Dan's birthday, we drove to Walkabout Creek
in the hope of having lunch at the Walkabout Creek Pub from the movie Crocodile
Dundee. Unfortunately the pub was closed!! So we got take away from the roadhouse
and ate it on the front veranda of the pub!
We stopped at a road side rest area that night and celebrated Dan's birthday with a cake, candles and some help from fellow travellers to sing Happy Birthday.
We stopped at a road side rest area that night and celebrated Dan's birthday with a cake, candles and some help from fellow travellers to sing Happy Birthday.
We called in to Mt Isa to stock up the caravan. We were really
surprised at the size of the township. It is like a small city which has almost
every shop and business you can imagine. As we got out of the car we realised
that the town smells industrial. The mines are very close to the town centre
and you can hear, feel and smell them.
We continued through to a little town called Camooweal. Here
we met up with our good friends, Julie and Rasmus and their three kids. We
camped next to a billabong and spent nearly two weeks doing absolutely nothing!
Julie and Rasmus are on a 12 month trip around Australia and
they began their journey with us in Victoria in February.
It was really hot while we were there and we were camped
without power or water so the kids spent time playing in the billabong and Dan
strung up my hammock between two trees and I spent hours reading my book, while
Dan worked. Then as the caravan heated up to over 45 degrees, it was Dan's turn to relax in the hammocks!
Julie and Rasmus are now heading in the opposite direction
towards the east coast. The next time we see them, they will have finished
their journey and will be back home.
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