What a night with all the comings and goings in the rest area, and the on and off rainfall, the semi trailer decided to start up and leave at 3 am so we did have rather a disturbed night.
Also early in the morning a police car came past with its lights flashing and warned us not to leave yet as a house was coming along the road.
It wasn’t raining at first light so we got going as quickly as we could and did manage to get the trailers packed away in the dry, although we did have to pack them away wet.
First stop the pretty historic town of Richmond with its moon rocks and the Visitors Centre where an excellent Fossil display was housed.
All the fossils were well presented with an audio guide to explain each display. The exhibition included a vast range of fossils found in the region – Ammonites, turtles, squids, belemnites, Minmi – the 100 million year anklylosaur, plesiosaurs, Kronosaurus and an ichthyosaur mother with baby
After a quick look at the other tourist spots in Richmond and the purchase of some redclaw from the local redclaw farm at Julia Creek we pushed on to Hughenden where the countryside suddenly became greener.
We looked through the fossil centre at the Visitors centre there but it wasn’t a patch on the one at Richmond although it did have a reconstructed Muttaburrasaurus
We looked through the town of Hughenden at the various interesting metal sculptures, and the main rotunda constructed from old windmills, and after a picnic lunch headed north along the Kennedy Development Road to Porcupine Gorge where we set up camp for the night.
It rained quite heavily on the way there so the road was a bit muddy and it also rained when we arrived but the rain soon passed over and stayed away long enough for us to cook and have our dinner out in the open but not long enough for the clearing away and washing up
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