The main street in Ilfracombe has many,many old pieces of steam driven machinery,old trucks & cars & a couple of heritage houses...an interesting place to spend some time.
A Furphy Water Cart...these carts were used a lot in the 1st World War to carry water to the troops. The drivers were notorious sources of info & gossip,but not all of their news was reliable.. so the word 'Furphy' soon became another word for rumour.
Fascinating!!!!
Ransome Steam Engine probably used to drive the
shearing shed equipment.
A Brolga...our first sighting of one..sort of in the wild....it was walking down the road in the caravan park at Longreach.
Winton.....Arno's Wall.
This wall was built by Arno from rock from his opal
mine & cement...plus every bit of rubbish he could
get his hands on. It is studded with all sorts of junk
..even a kitchen sink!!!
More junk...the fence is 70 metres long.
Two old bikes.
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| An Australian Bustard-never seen one before! |
Still in Winton...we went out to the Musical Fence & this 'drum kit' was there also...great fun! It made lots of noise!
Lark Quarry Dinosaur Trackways...110 Kilometres
from Winton. A fantastic place to visit....the site of the world's only recorded evidence of a dinosaur stampede...95 million years ago!
Spectacular scenery at Lark Quarry.
Some of the fossils they have found at the site.
A dinosaur footprint....of a Carnosaur...a very big dinosaur. He caused the stampede.
Another of Carnosaur's footprints & you can also see the much smaller footprints of the Ornithods who were in the stampede trying to get away from the big fellow!
Unbelievable to think that these footprints of the small Ornithod dinosaurs are 95 million years old...& we were standing there looking at them! Incredible!
This is the building which has been built over the Stampede Footprints,to protect them. A fascinating place.
Mount Isa....a view over part of Mount Isa.
Another view....the township of Mount Isa is surrounded by mines.
Mount Isa is the largest industrial & commercial centre in north-west Queensland. Silver,lead & zinc are mined here.
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