Richmond to Hughenden

Distance travelled today  114kms
Distance travelled so far 4,691kms

We have the day here as Hughenden is only just over 1 hour drive away so, back to dinosaurs today as we visited Kronosaurus Korner at Richmond. Home (kronosauruskorner.com.au) 

There are so many fossils displayed here!

Kronosaurus Korner - Collections

When you go in the museum you are given an audio handheld device that you enter the number shown on displays and the story of the display is then played to you. They also had a video explaining what the area was like, about the Eromanga Sea Eromanga Sea covered inland Australia 110 mya (australianenvironmentaleducation.com.au) and where/what dinosaurs were discovered at first! Kronosaurus Queenslandicus, the largest pliosaurid  was discovered in Richmond and you can see the fossil on display at the museum Kronosaurus Korner - Kronosaurus

The cafe in the museum is worth a visit and the onsite pies are good! Whilst here you can get a Fossicking Permit and go to two sites that are about 12km out of town and find your own fossil. We went to Site 1 and found quite a few fossils of shells - these are 25million years old! Bonus is you get to keep them. We did purchase the Paleontologist kit (Geo hammer; small crowbar; bag; safety glasses; paleontology ruler; dustpan and brush) they had at the museum too. If you find anything significant or want to know what you have you can go back to the museum, and they will look at it and advise you!

We were then back on to the Flinders Highway and off to Hughenden.

If you go there check out Chengs Chinese Facebook they only do takeaway currently but celebrated 30years of business this year and the lady is lovely and the Chinese very nice!

Our accommodation at Hughenden is the Rest Easi Motel Comfortable Accommodation | Hughenden, QLD | Rest Easi Motel very comfortable place to stay and is about the first accommodation you come to when entering Hughenden.