It was time to pack up and leave Charters Towers where we said a fond farewell to Bill. We were off to hunt for dinosaurs.

Heading west we crossed the great dividing range and the road became flatter and straighter. We began to see that quintessential outback red dirt.

There were so many RV’son the road. We saw our first 4 trailer road trains for this trip.

Approaching Hughenden we spied a large solar farm and a wind farm on the distant hills. We spied a giant windmill at Prairie.

On arrival in Hugenden we went directly to the RV Park we were quickly registered, paid our $10 donation and set up camp. We were glad to get there early in the afternoon as we suspected it would fill right up later in the day. The park is right next door to the showgrounds and provides camping for self-contained vehicles only. You can’t even let your grey water out on the ground at this one.

We set off in the car to visit the Flinders Discovery Centre, the home of a skeleton of a Muttaburrasaurus. Scattered around town are sculptures of ancient creatures and of course, a Muttaburrasaurus.

Maddie wanted to go check out the lake and have a swim but when we walked over to the lake the beach was full of mucky looking algae. I’m guessing that the beach isn’t cleaned until summer. So we walked around to the playground instead. We then walked down to the boat ramp and pontoon. The water looked pretty murky there too. A couple of teenage girls walked by and said ‘ watch out for the crocs! There’s a couple of freshies in the lake’. Maddie looked suitably frightened by that prospect however I suspect they were joking as we’d left croc country behind.

We were correct in our assumption that the RV park would fill up and by nightfall there wasn’t a spare spot left.