A quickish 16 km cross wind ride up the ‘Cork Jump Up’, a well known local mesa, to the dinosaur footprints at Lark Quarry. It is surprising to see how much effort is being put into developing the rich dinosaur fossil remains of the Winton-Muttaburra area into a tourist attraction.

I was pushing time to try to get to Winton before nightfall to avoid the forecast rain so Chloe at the NHT display expedited a tour of the footprints for me. Thanks Chloe, very informative and helped get me on to the bitumen and away from the risk of getting stuck in mud.

A discussion with the national parks ranger about feral dog and feral cat control techniques using behavioural science, fill the water bottles from the dinosaur tracks centre rain water tank and back onto the Winton road.

This road needs some lovin’. It is badly corrugated or worn down to the rocky cap. Fortunately the last 44 km of the run to Winton is bitumen.

Thanks to Chloe and the bitumen I made it to 19 km from Winton before pulling up for the night, camping in a stand of another native acacia (local name unknown). Wood from this species is good for smoking sausages but rubbish for campfire cooking as it is resinous, smokes badly, coats everything in tar and needs a big fire to stay alight.

The rain held off.