Leaving Cooktown qld 29th June

Leaving Cooktown qld 29th June 

After Leaving Cooktown qld  on Monday 29th June  

 It started to rain and did not stop.  Had rain just about all the way.

The next town called  Ravenshoe we stopped for some lunch. 

Where we were told to watch out for the next section of road 

As there are road works and it is a real mess .

And a mess it was all mud as it was still raining and so many potholes .

It was not funny driving through it all 

Being there were trucks doing the same thing this was making it worse .

Photos do not show all the pot holes that you could not miss 

But we got through ok and stopped at

Walkman qld  for the night still raining. Next day we made it to.

  Greenvale  qld and no rain.  We stayed the night. 

It is a small caravan park with chooks running around .

 There was one spot you have to stand on to try to get Mobil coverage .

 But it had stopped raining. We left there early next morning .

We stopped at Charters Towers qld  to do some shopping.

Brought some lovely fresh bread rolls for lunch.

 Had them with  ham and pickle , they were good.

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1st July 2015 

We are now at  Hughenden qld  for 3 nights. 

Next day we drove to Richmond  were there is a great Dinosaur Museum .

This one took pride of place.

Called a Krono - Kronosaurus queenslandicus  

 with powerful  flippers  it is thought to be more than 100 million years old 

 and about  10 meter long,  A giant marine reptile with a crocodile-like head 

The fossil was found by grazer Robert Hacon in January 

while spraying for weeds on his cattle property .

He found the head first then started to find the rest of him . 

It was a few weeks later while sitting at his front door he could see something in the ground so going over to take look he ad found another big find. 

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Minmi paravertebra 

Minmi paravertebra was a 3 meter long ankylosaur that was discovered  in 1964

The most complete specimen found at Marathon Station,

 near Richmond in north-western Queensland

Minmi was the first ankylosaur known from the Southern Hemisphere 

Minmi paravertebra was an ankylosaur, a quadrupedal dinosaur covered in bony amour

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Ammonites are perhaps the most widely known fossil,

 possessing the typically ribbed spiral-form shell as pictured above. 

These creatures lived in the seas between 240 - 65 million years ago

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We  left Hughenden  on the 4th July.

 Drove to Winton a small town about 2 hours’ away.

We are at a caravan park witch is owned by the local pub called Tattersalls Hotel.

Looking down the main street a small country town.

After setting the van up we went for a walk down the main street, 

We saw the poor old -Waltzing Matilda  Museum  -That  all burnt down last week .

We did not go see the Dinosaur footprints was to dear for us they wanted $175. each.

on the bus.  But did get a photo of them. 

Pat and I decided to go to dinner just across the road . 

Looking forward to this . No cooking .

Pat had a mixed grill and I had Barramundi witch was so lovely. 

Next day we went for a drive around but not really much to see.  

Monday 6th July we left Winton 

On the way out we saw a street singe  we liked  so had to take a photo

So will close this Blog page till next part of the trip. 

Hope you enjoy the read . 

 Take care all my family & friends.   

Love to our little Riley family xxxx 

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