Another easy day bunny hopping westward along The Overlander Way (or the Flinders Highway). Made a quick visit to the Flinders Discovery Centre at Hughenden - lots of fossils, dinosaur parts (apart from us), gems and really nice rocks.
On to Richmond - the fossil capital of Australia - for morning tea and a quick look at Kronosaurus Korner where one of their star attractions is the Richmond Pliosaur the remains of which are over 100 million years old. I think we have overdosed ourselves on fossils and really old stuff over the last few days but it has still been very interesting!
Had another near mishap whilst travelling between Richmond and Julia Creek (our overnight stop)!
Scenario - a flock of small hawks were enjoying their late lunch in the middle of the main road - with total disgust, most of them moved quickly to the nearby trees and powerlines when they realised that we were bigger than them - one of them was being greedy and took his time. Well, as he took flight our Turtle had started to suck his air currents away from him and all we could see was the poor old hawk's bum as he thumped into our windscreen and then bounced onto the side of the road. A few very long seconds later we were able to draw breath and thank our guardian angels that the bird wasn't sitting on Alan's lap wrapped in the wndscreen!!
Julia Creek was a nice little stop but the fuel was the most expensive yet.
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