Winton - Dinosaur Stampede

Yesterday we arrived at Winton in outback QLD. It is a small town with not too many features but the bush caravan park is fun, once again like our last park great entertainment & friendly.  Each night you can get soup, roast & dessert for $20, followed by songs, jokes, poetry in the big barn. To our Victorian eyes the surrounding countryside looks very dry, but they have had good rainfall for the last 3 years so they think its tropical now after the drought! Today we went to see the Dinosaur Stampede- the is the only place in the world where there is a fossilised record of hundreds of small dinosaurs & their babies fleeing a bigger dinosaur. The footprints are small, they were originally thought to be birds up until 1960. The fossils have now been covered by a big building to protect them. The site is 110 km from Winton, most of it gravel road with sheep & cattle roaming over it.  We also saw lots of roadkill, including a black feral pig. Above the exhibition is a track up to a lookout where you can see the distant plains.

Footprints of the larger dinossaur, a bit hard to see but it surrounded by smaller ones. These are 95 million years old

Petrified treefern & other fosills