Monthly Archive: July, 2020

I know well from many years of travelling with Majella that once we turn toward home there is no holding her. I had thought of deviating on our way from Charleville to Toowoomba but realised there would be no chance of holding her so our plan was set. True to form for a day when we were heading for home,...

We might have found a shorter, quicker way home from Hughenden, even via Barcaldine, but neither of us had ever been to Charleville or the towns along the way so it seemed an obvious inclusion in the itinerary. Staying there resulted in a relatively short day of driving today and a longer one tomorrow. As usual we were up around...

My itinerary for today had been planned around picking up another part of the Dinosaur Trail suggested itinerary by driving east to Prairie and then south via Kooroorinya Falls and Muttaburra to Barcaldine. I was aware that the road from Prairie to Muttaburra was gravel and, after our excursion to Lark Quarry, I did a little more research on road...

The Dinosaur Trail suggested itinerary included Porcupine Gorge National Park as the highlight of its second day around Hughenden. That fitted well with Majella’s 2020 project to visit 20 National Parks that we have not visited previously. The video we saw at the Flinders Discovery Centre on Sunday piqued our interest as it explained the many geological layers that are...

Because Richmond is only 114 km from Hughenden we opted to book 3 nights in Hughenden and tackle Richmond, the third apex of the Dinosaur Trail triangle, as a day trip. When I booked our passes online it seemed that COVID required booking specific times so I had opted for an 11:00 am slot at Kronosaurus Korner. That would allow...

Australian Age of Dinosaurs website offers a suggested itinerary of 9 days, 3 each in Winton, Hughenden, and Richmond. I managed to condense that to the 2 days and nights we had in Winton and 3 nights in Hughenden allowing for a day trip to Richmond. At times today we wondered if I might have condensed it further. As usual...

My plan for today had been to visit Lark Quarry to see the dinosaur stampede and take a look around Winton. We managed to squeeze in a little more than that. I had calculated that a 9:00 am departure would get us to Lark Quarry in good time for the tour we had booked at 11:00 am. We did not...

This trip was planned around seeing the dinosaurs at Winton. The real origins of that plan may be lost in the mists of time but when our kids gifted us with entrance to the dinosaur trail attractions for my birthday in June things were set. Winton is a long drive from Toowoomba so we planned a few things along the...

It may please some who think we have been travelling too fast to know that we did not move the van at all today. Longreach Tourist Park where we stayed last night and again tonight is an easy walk from the two major attractions we had planned to visit today. I had booked for the 9:30 am Airpark Tour at...

Majella is not keen on cruises. In part that is because she does not like being on water out of sight of land. In that case, a dinner cruise in Longreach was expected to be a safe bet since there seemed little chance of enough water to get beyond sight of land. The cruise runs on Wednesday and Friday but...