TOD Tour 2.0 Day 22 - Swimming Dinosaurs

We have been hearing about Kronosaurus Korner for a week or more from everyone traveling out of the west and today we had our chance to be impressed.

Opening as the Richmond Marine Fossil Museum in 1995 and renamed Kronosaurus Korner during a massive redevelopment funded by the Qld State government ($200,000) and the Richmond Shire Council ($300,000), it houses several of the most complete marine dinosaur skeletons in the world. The Richmond Pliosaur and Kunbarrasaurus Ieversi were found on Rob Ievers Marathon Station within three months of each other and have done much to enhance the knowledge of these creatures who once lived in Australia's ancient inland sea, Eromanga.

This is an impressive museum. Right from the opening video presentation which sets the context for the fossils you are about to see, to the displays themselves and the life-sized recreations of several of the reptiles. The largest, Kronosaurus queenslandicus, greets you from some distance away at the front of the museum. A personal audio program is provided which is linked to numbered displays, giving each visitor more than enough information about what they are viewing.

An extensive cafe which will sell you anything you can imagine to eat or drink, is part of the complex.

How long should you spend here? How long is a piece of string.

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In the afternoon we went to the BBQ area and played Yahtzee and then returned in early evening for community dinner provided by the Richmond Junior Rugby League. Here we met Larry and Gwen, two fellow travelers and did the compare notes thing about places we had been and retold bits of our life stories.

A stunning moonrise over the lake was a precursor to the community dinner.

Julia Creek tomorrow.