Day 5: Winton (Lark Quarry)

Today we slept in a bit and then left for Lark Quarry, the four of us in our car. It was good to try out out new Waeco fridge for the first time - it worked superbly! Lark Quarry is 110 km west of Winton by a mixture of bitumen and dirt road. We came across quite a few eagles but they were very fast and taking photos of them proved difficult.

Lark Quarry was good - the only site in the world of a dinosaur stampede recorded in sandstone. The talk took about an hour after which we went on a short walk to the lookout. It was 31 degrees so we weren't keen on going too far. We had our pcnic lunch under the shelter shed at LQ (there is no shop or food available) and then headed home - on the way we went into Bladensburg National Park but it wasn't that exciting so we turned around before we got to the camping area and headed home.

When we got home we had some more water issues - I was filling the water tanks when the filler unit inside the van fell apart. I was alerted to this because Lorelle was yelling 'water' and starting to dog paddle! - well it actually wasn't that bad but it did take several towels to dry and a couple of hours to re-glue the unit - won't know if it is fixed until tomorrow when the glue is dry......

Tomorrow we have a big drive to Mt Isa so we are leaving at 8am.

Quip of the day (actually yesterday): Lorelle: "They should have retractable lanyards!"