Julia Creek to Charters Towers

Before moving on we went in to the information centre at Julia Creek. Learned about the Great Artesian Basin and how it's discovery saved the pastoral industry of the area. To find out how vast is this underground water just google great artesian basin. I was surprised how big an area of Australia it covers.
The information centre has been developed to encourage the likes of us to pop in and take a look.





We spent just over half an hour in the auditorium watching videos about their water supply and the rare and endangered Dunnart, a small marsupial about the size of a mouse.

But time to move on. And so to Richmond, a town that is part of the dinosaur trail.


We needed to register for the free camp in the town and registration was at Kronosaurus Korner. I was taken by the rubbish bins


We didn't pay to go through this fossil museum but did take a look through Cambridge Downs store replica.


"The stone walls could not be easily breached and the windows had iron bars to facilitate defense against Aboriginal attacks"


Inside were exhibits from history. One room housed a restored two man shearing plant


The cabinets alongside showed various shearing hand pieces and combs


Out the back was a shed exhibiting the Cob n Co wagons






And so, on to Charters Towers. Straight to the post office and collected the part for the oven.
Tuesday afternoon, Brandt removed the old bent part of the door.





Wedesday took a few hours putting everything back together again





Other Grey Nomad friends arrived and we moved to a quieter free camp 22km East of Charters Towers by Burdekin River (Brandt caught a Sooty Grunter there)
The site we were on had a slope. This caused a slight problem with entry in to our Off Road Caravan. But there was a solution:






Charters Towers is known for its old buildings