Left Mt Isa this morning at 8:45 to continue our trip back to the coast at Rockhampton. By 3:15 we reached Winton and called it a day. Winton is famous for a couple of things. About 300 million years ago an asteroid struck the area releasing an amount of energy equivalent to 650 Hiroshima atomic bombs. Also a number of important dinosaur fossils were discovered here including that of 'Elliott' a sauropod. Since then the finds have been so numerous that Winton has become known as the Dinosaur Capital of Australa. Tomorrow we have a much shorter run to Longreach where we want to visit the Qantas museum and the Stockmans Hall of Fame.
All of this history and info on Australia that I've never heard about. I guess too much sleeping in class…
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