Winton the land of dinosaurs with a museum just outside of town and the dinosaur stampede 110km sw.
First the stampede tells of three different dinosaurs and their fight for survival . The 3300 dinosaur foot prints here are of hundreds of Coelurosaurs and Ornithopods which fled along a muddy shore to escape the jaws of a huge and hungry Carnosaur. These foot prints and the stampede they depict inspired the stampede scene in the movie 'Jurassic Park
Because 100,000 million years ago Queensland's outback was part of an inland sea it was abundant in marine reptiles and other prehistoric creatures. These, are only in the past few years being discovered as they make their way to the surface.
The museum just outside town is called the Australian Age of Dinosaurs and holds the worlds largest collection of Australian dinosaurs and the biggest dinosaur laboratory in the southern hemisphere. People over 18 years can get involved by participating in either the "Prep-A-Dino" or the Dig-A-Dino activities and you actually get to help either in the field digging or in the laboratory removing the stone from the bone. Under supervision of course and you have to pay for the privilege, the funds go to help keep everything going .

We learnt a new saying and it is "Jump Up" what is this you ask, well-the term jump up is used to describe the often steep escarpment road leading to the top of the hard top rock country in Winton.

Winton also has "The Waltzing Matilda centre' because the legend of the song by Banjo Paterson was penned nearby at Dagworth Station in 1895.

As usual we found a National Park to walk round it is Bladensburg NP.. Formerly a grazing property of 85000 ha of Mitchell and Flinders grass and flat top mesas and plateaus with open woodland of Bloodwood and Mulga. We drove the River Gum route some 49.5 km with many stops. The most interesting was Skull hole which is the site of a massacre, but thats not why we stopped it has caves with bates in winter as no water is in it or any sign of waterfall. While we were walking around we carefully went down the cliff walls to the bottom to try see into the caves and we found a Goanna a very long one who kindly let us take photos before he got a bit upset with us { pissed off that is }