Winton to Cloncurry

Hi All,

Pictures of wildlife & places we went to around Winton & Cloncurry as follows for you to look at.

Goanna that posed for photograph on the way to Opalton

Ian putting the bone puzzle together

Spinafex Pigon at Opalton

The drive to Winton was uneventfull. Whilst in Winton we visited Opalton, Lark Quarry & The Age of Dinosaures. Did not bother with the Matilda Centre as just more old stuff.

Lark Quarry was just the most interesting

 set of footprints I have ever seen. After doing the guided tour we had a picnic lunch then went for a walk around the park. The drive out was 

110km of gravel road but well worth the drive. 

footprints in the rock

walking track with animal track crossing

Opalton again was all gravel road, with dry creek crossing, lots of cattle grids & an air strip across the road. The local wild life photo ops wer

e great. Opalton was a strange place, very hot dry and a few old blokes working their mines, hoping to

 make a fortune. We went fossicking but did not make a big find. You have to dig down very deep for the boulder & matrix opal but we had fun anyway.

Opalton Store

Age of Dinosaurs tour was on top of a mesa (flat top hill) here we got to touch real bones that are millions of years old. Just the most am

azing thing to do, hold a dinosaur bone that was part of such a big creature, we watch how they find, document, clean & display these artfacts. 

We are always washing & cleaning the van, truck as the dust is allways around. So after a few days we went onto Cloncurry for more adventures. On the way went had lunch @ the Blue Heller Pub in Kynuna, spoke with a few travellers & photograph the bird life. Drove straight through McKinlay as we decided to make a day trip for lunch later in the week.

As we got to 35km out of Cloncurry the truck stopped that right STOPPED, so we had to get the RACV (RACQ) to tow us in. Ian is not happy with this. It turned out that we had run out of fuel (we worked on a 254ltr tank only to find out the hard wa

y that it is only 200ltrs) Not happy with Brown Davis at this point as all our problems with the truck have been caused by Brown Davis. Also we received a chip in the windscreen.

us n the tow truck to Cloncurry

Cloncurry, went to rideing the bikes, visited the Mary Kathleen 

museum, this was full of mineral rock samples. Visited the Burke & Wills

 campsite 109, such a pretty creek Corella Creek, meet a bloke riding his push bike round the top of Aus (mad). John Flynn gallery & the Mary Kathleen Ruins, the town streets are all still there but no houses or shops. We did do the day trip to McKinlay to have lunch at the Walkabout Creek Hotel but it does not serve lunch or Gin.  After a week we headed of to Normanton, more about next post.  

Mary Kathleen ruins

Walkabout Creek Pub