Back Home (sigh) by Toby

Finally we headed for home (sigh), taking the long route (yay!).We went to Haddon corner, Dig tree, Cameron corner, Tibooburra and broken hill. By then the car was a mess and some rain on the final car trip home wasn't unwelcome. I missed home but I'm definitely going to miss the holiday more.

Age of Dinosaurs and Lark Quarry By Toby

One of the must do things, which we of course did, is visit the Winton age of dinosaurs museum and  the lark quarry dinosaur stampede.

The dinosaur museum consists of many fossils including the famous 'Banjo' and 'Matilda'. Our first tour was through the lab, a shed where fossils are cleansed of rock and pieced together, and to work there you had to be at least 12 but to work in digs you had to be 18.

The Lark Quarry dinosaur stampede was caused by a large theropod ambushing 86 small coelurosaurs and 70 small ornithopods. No bones were found, only the footprints of the dinosaurs. 

All the tiny divits you can see are dinosaur footprints 

well preserved in mud.

Great Barrier Reef snorkelling by Toby

Had a fantastic day out on the Great Barrier Reef. The snorkeling was great, we saw heaps of fish! Snorkelled on 3 sites but the last was my favourite.

Wallaman falls + rock slides by Toby

Recently we visited the longest single-drop waterfall in Australia, Wallaman falls. It was long enough that most of the water turned to mist before it hit the pool below! Another awesome place we went to was the rock slides, naturally formed rock water slides. They were heaps of fun, perfectly smooth and even mum and dad had a go.

 Wallaman falls

rock slides