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Muttaburrasaurus 3 - 15 July 2016 makin'tracks Martin imitating Priscilla. He was fined Muttaburrasaurus 3 - 15 July 2016 Martin’s opening comments …… Trip Leaders It would have been about 6 months before this trip that Julie Martin & Julie Dalmazzio 200 Series diesel and I were talking about finishing off our Darling River run which had been rain interrupted in 2012. A friend had also expressed Participants interest in seeing the Dinosaur trail in Central Queensland. We Phil & Cheryl Meade 200 Series diesel knew that any such trip would be limited to 2 weeks so we ditched Lutz Stollwerk & Ines Seringer 100 Series diesel the Darling and focused on the fossils and subsequently came up with the idea of looking for a live Muttaburrasaurus which Graham, Dianne & Luke Hobb 100 Series petrol we could barbeque it to see what it would taste like. Hence the Sue & Brian Bailey 150 Series diesel Muttaburrasaurus BBQ Tour 2016 was born. Leanne & John Alessi 120 Series diesel The trip was always planned to be as easy as possible regarding the daily distances and to also provide the opportunity for any Frank Arico & My Lae 80 Series diesel trip member to take over the trip leading for a day. A Sergeant- Colin Faith & Monica Hope BT50 diesel at-Arms was appointed from the start and at the pre-trip get- together each trip participant was issued a cap which proudly proclaimed them to be part of the Muttaburrasaurus BBQ Tour your daily destination, set up your camp and then gather to 2016. Hawaiian shirts became our uniform for reasons that have a bit of a yarn. Usually everyone brings along some nibbles escape us (grin) and if you look at some of the high profile online to share. What can happen is that everyone turns up with an recipe sites you will see recipes for Muttaburrasaurus Stew and entire delicatessen in tow and so bang goes dinner. Happy Hour Australian Style Sticky Muttaburrasaurus ribs!. scheduling does away with this by assigning responsibility for provision of the happy hour nibbles to vehicles on a rotating Camp oven cooking featured on several nights with some terrific basis. creations being served up and two practices introduced to us that we would commend to anyone running a trip. Trivia Quizzes We didn’t find a live Muttaburrasaurus. We did find a bunch of where a trip participant assembles a quiz, possibly using a new friends. This is their story, Martin and Julie. source such as the Saturday paper quiz section with the quiz Sunday 3rd July: Wellington to Bourke - Phil & Cheryl being run as we drive along. It could take half an hour, serves Martin and Julie’s trip commenced at the Riverside Caravan Park as entertainment and for all to monitor everyone else’s alertness. in Wellington. The first day was an easy to Bourke (400km) and The other commended practice was Happy Hour scheduling. was a great introduction to a fun and most enjoyable two weeks. Happy Hour of course is that time of the day where you reach For us, it would be only our second, in many trips over many years in the Club, where at the outset we were not anticipating 36 TLCC NEWS DECEMBER 2016 makin'tracks Spending time with Muttaburrasaurus at Muttaburra the use of 4WD at any stage. This was fine, as it presented another focus to driving, chasing the dinosaur trail in Qld. According to the Queensland Museum website, Muttaburasaurus is: “Named after the town of Muttaburra in Central Qld, Muttaburrasaurus langdoni was discovered by local grazier Doug Langdon. Muttaburrasaurus lived around 100 million years ago, during the Cretaceous period. It was a herbivore, with rows of grinding teeth. Several specimens of this dinosaur have been found in central and northern Qld, and a few teeth have been found in New South Wales. Muttaburrasaurus was about 7m long, weighed about 3 tonnes and probably ate plants such as ferns, cycads and conifers and may have lived in herds.” In view of the age of a Muttaburasaurus, the prospect of its 4WD only out of Muttaburra BBQ seemed remote, yet Martin and Julie’s 14 enthusiastic disciples were certainly there to “give it a go”. Bourke’s Kidmans Camp Caravan Park was Martin’s choice for the night’s stop. exercised our brains with the trivia quiz which was organised by Andrew Hull’s Poetry on a Plate provided good campfire food our temporary trip leaders. and entertainment. School holidays in Qld and NSW made for a full-house. The caravan park at Augathella is basic while functional. It boasts true drive through sites, clean amenities and a large covered Monday 4th July: Bourke to Augathella - Julie & Martin seating area with picnic tables. We enjoyed the Happy Hour Martin appointed Brian and Sue as Trip Leaders for the day with hosted by Frank. Lutz taking over as Sergeant-at-Arms. It was a good, straight Tuesday 5th July: Augathella to Winton - Julie & Martin forward run of 530kms under an overcast sky up to Augathella. Along the way we saw evidence of recent heavy rains with the Up early and away by 0830. The roads today were long and road verges having flowing water in them. We also drove through straight, our travelling companions were B-triples, the scenery the occasional heavy shower. Morning tea was at Barringun on flat and magnificent. Although not a stopping point along the way, the border where we chatted with the lady in the store and later Tambo caught everyone’s eye as an extremely pretty and tidy we enjoyed a short lunch in Wyandra. Of note was the amount town. of road kill that was evident almost as soon as we crossed the That afternoon, a tired bunch pulled in Winton and after setting border which saw us dodging many carcasses. After lunch we up camp we adjourned to the Tattersall’s Hotel across the road TLCC NEWS DECEMBER 2016 37 makin'tracks Handing over our collected fines to the RFDS at Longreach Walking Australian Age of Dinosaurs Fossil hunters at work Processing dinosaur fossils at Australian Age of Dinosaurs for a great dinner in a private room with hilarious entertainment Back in Winton there were no more group activities before Happy from Frank and Bluey. Hour. There was the idea to go to the movies in the evening to Wednesday 6th July: Winton - Lutz & Ines see some old films and ads. Unfortunately the venue cancelled for that night. Due to the location of the caravan park next to the road train bypass of Winton, not everybody had a good night sleep. Today Thursday 7th July: Winton & Lark Quarry - Graham, Dianne & we are going to see our first dinosaurs! At 0930 our group was Luke on its way to The Australian Age of Dinosaurs about 24kms We left at 0800 from Tattersall’s Caravan Park Winton to drive outside of Winton. to Lark Quarry which is 120km away. The site of the only known With a little delay as our fearless trip leader first misses the turn- dinosaur stampede in the world. The road is mostly dirt and at off, our convoy climbs up onto a large mesa where the museum is times quite rough. There are no facilities en route and we arrived located. We are welcomed by a dinosaur statue at the entrance. about 0930. In the “Collection Room” our guide Tom showed us three dinosaur The museum is brilliant and easily accessable for young and old. skeletons. Winton is the place where Banjo Paterson wrote his We were introduced to our tour guide, Tanya, who seated us in famous Waltzing Matilda. So they called the first skeleton Banjo, a small theatre where we watched a very informative 15 minute a male carnivore dinosaur. Matilda is the name of the second video presentation about the theory of the dinosaur stampede. skeleton from a pretty huge, female plant eating dinosaur. Next we moved into the large, enclosed area to see the actual Compared to her thigh bone, a cow’s thigh bone is little. footprints of the stampeding dinosaurs which was a truly unique experience, we had ample time to explore them. Some of our As all the bones were found on David Elliott’s property the third party struck off along short and long walking tracks in the area. skeleton is called Elliott. But nobody knows if these bones are There was a lovely coffee and souvenir shop on site and clean from a male or female dinosaur, if it was one or more or even if facilities. We left at 1130 to head back to Winton for free time. they are from the same species. Friday 8th July: Hughenden - Sue & Brian After a short walk with beautiful views into the Winton flat we are at the “Lab” where Alan waited. He shows us the unprepared I’m sure we were all woken at approximately 5am by the truck fossil storage, many prepared fossils, two meteorites also found warming its engine across the road and the cock crowing. on the Elliott property and the fossil preparation area. With Consequently we rolled away 12 minutes before Martin’s dentist’s drills, volunteers remove any unwanted stone from a appointed time of 0830. fossil until it is ready for display. TLCC NEWS DECEMBER 2016 39 makin'tracks Where are we question mark (Barringun) Martin started the day off with a rendition of his recently penned kinds of giant dinosaurs, marine reptiles and microscopic skeletal poem ‘Ode to Winton’. Cheryl followed this with the second of remains of plankton like creatures can be located in this district.
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