Day 49 - Richmond QLD

Today, we have embraced the little country town and just relaxed! We all slept in (a well needed and deserved sleep in) and pottered around the tent. After a late pancake breakfast, we headed down the main street to check out the tourist attraction "Kronosaurus Corner". Richmond itself, is famous for its dinosaur fossils! Hence what Kronosaurus corner is all about. It was Fabulous!! Krystian had a ball admiring all of the fossils and once we learnt all there was to learn about fossils we were able to head out to two fossil hunting sites to look for our own fossils!  Maciek and Krystian enjoyed this more than us princesses LOL However, in saying this we did manage to find some small fossils to take home.

After all the had work digging for fossils, we made our way back into town to find some where for lunch. This proved to be more difficult than first thought! Nothing here seems to be open on a Monday. We managed to find the one and only cafe open and get ourselves some tucker! After stuffing ourselves, we headed back to the tent for a rest and some cricket. Well, Maciek and Krystian played cricket and Bella and I watched a movie in my bed called Hop. Cool kids movie! Before sundown, we headed out to Lake Fred Tritton and the Bush tucker garden for a walk and play at the play ground. A nice easy stroll  around the lake for the kids and the playground does contain a water park but it was far to cold to even consider getting wet! For dinner we consumed some of Richmonds prize winning Bangers (sausages) and an early night was had by all (simply because once the sun goes down so does the heater and its bloody freezing!!). 

Tomorrow sees us on the road again heading for Mt Isa. Just a small drive from here around 380kms. 

A special golf Putt - Hole in one wins you a new car!

Sunset at the Camp site

Maciek and I have really enjoyed our two days in Richmond! For a small remote country town it really is quite beautiful!

Day 48 - Cairns to Richmond

Well not much to report today, we drove 870km to get to Richmond QLD. Th drive was not as bad as we figured and we arrived into Richmond at 6 pm or so and had the camper set up and dinner ready to go within minutes, we are getting good at this whole set up thing.

We plan to spend the day exploring the local fossicking field looking for dinosaur bones and the like, then its onto Mt Isa. Keep an eye out for this space

Day 47 - Cairns, again.

Well what a difference a day make, we woke to a sunny morning, overcast and NO rain. We were suppose to be heading out for Charters Towers today but we decided that we could do one big day driving on Sunday instead of two smaller ones and spend an extra day in Cairns. This place is amazing there is JUST so much to do here every town has something to offer.

As last night was rather late, we did not wake till 9 am, which for us is a big sleep in. We decided that today we would use the parks facilities first prior to heading out, so we hit the tennis courts for some racquet action, needless to say non of us are tennis stars.

After our morning endeavors we headed out to Mareeba, to a place called Coffee Works. This place great, you pay $38 to get for a family, you get to have ALL YOU CAN DRINK coffee and ALL YOU CAN EAT Chocolate, (I love all you can eat or drink). The kids had milkshakes and did try some nice local teas as well.

In the back of the building there is an amazing Coffee museum, this place was unreal, there is every type of coffee related appliance, grinder, roaster ever conceived. I (wog) even found coffee grinder we had in Poland when we were growing up.

We spent 3 hours wandering around and enjoying the sites and tastes of all different varieties of coffee to be had, their chocolate is not bad either.

We left the coffee place, feeling a little hyped up and sick at the same time, I have never drank so much coffee in my entire life. From there on it was onto the local Heritage museum, which was free so that's a bonus.

This place was actually very well appointed and had a lot of heritage items we have never seen, including a railway ambulance which as sold to the museum for $10 and it still runs.

We were a bit short on time here which was pity as it really had a lot to see and offer.

We made a B line for home stopping at a Local Dick Smith to pick up a TV laptop dongle as we really are missing the news and TV in general, so now the camper i fully kitted out. LOL.

Tomorrow sees us doing LONG drive into the center of Australia, here's hoping the roads will be in good condition.