Mesa at Lark Quarry
Display building at Lark Quarry
Walking track at the Quarry
Hello from Winton where it is warmer than yesterday! Officially 30.6 today after 25.3 yesterday. Early blog today since we want to catch the entertainment on site later. We took a 110km spin down to the Lark Quarry Conservation Park to look at the fossilised dinosaur footprints. The site was excavated 30 years ago and the present building constructed in the last decade to protect the exhibit. The display is interesting because of it's uniqueness and the exact course of events required for them to be preserved 100 million years ago. It displays a dinosaur stampede where smaller dinosaurs were attacked by a local tyrannosausrus rex like creature and their footsteps were preserved as fossils in the mud adjacent the lake. It is the only find of it's type in the world and was the inspiration for the stampede scene Jurassic Park (so the story goes). On return to Winton we had a late lunch and visited the musical fence the video of which is shown below.
While having lunch i noticed on a map we had passed the Tropic of Capricorn at 23.5 degrees south of the equator. It passes through Barcaldine which we passed through 4 or 5 days ago. I mention it because it reminded me of a discussion we had in the car several days ago about what latitude we were at compared to some point previously. For some reason i foolishly made the statement that which ever way you look at the south pole you are always facing north. I spent some time then explaining why there is no west or east at the poles. A good example of the different thought processes of men and women.
Tomorrow Cloncurry!
cheers Simon
Musical fence
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