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Day 63: Dinosaur Stampede at Lark Quarry Conservation Park and Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum.
At 7am we are up and ready to drive the 110kms of dirt road, to the Dinosaur Stampede.
The 3300 footprints are housed in a purpose-built building, to protect them from the elements and people. It's quite new and very environmentally friendly.
The tour and viewing of the prints is limited, and Bill, our guide, full of knowledge, is perhaps a little dry for the kids. But they do well for the hour.
Of course, after the tour we do a short walk around the building, up to the jump up, and the boys are dying to find a dinosaur 'anything'. Unfortunately to no avail. However, they still managed to have pockets full of rocks?!
We have lunch before we leave, and make the slow journey back to Winton, to see the Age of Dinosaurs exhibition. Twenty three kilometers east, followed by another 10kms of dirt road.
This is an awesome place! I didn't realise how little I knew about the work being done here in Australia with dinosaur fossils. I thoroughly recommend this place...very interesting.
Little boy heaven...
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Uncle Glen Ooh look, it's a Darceonaraptorsbumasaurus!