Across the Top 

July 11 - 13   2002

  
dino wide 39k
 
jeff in dino mouth 48k

After a 5am wake up call we spent most of Thursday the 11th driving.  We woke up just in tome to discover the 100 million year old Kronosaurus Queenslandicus in Richmond, Queensland.  This full sized replica is also hungry around lunchtime.  There is also a very nice museum here.  Inside were the skeletons of several other marine dinosaurs.  The one with the long neck hanging from the ceiling is the Styxosaurus.  The bones in the next photo belong to a Pilosaur.  This is the worlds best Pilosaur because all the bones were recovered.

 
museum wide 40k
 
jack with dino 36k

 
Sausage tree 54K

The next morning we  stopped at the Three Rivers Hotel.  This was exciting to lots of the Auzies because this road house was made popular in an Australian folk song by singer Slim Dusty.  This is a Sausage Tree.  The tree is actually native to Aferica but I thought it was really neat.  The fruit looks like a tube of sausage.  They were all over the ground and a few fell down while we took morning tea.
 
sasuage fruit 68k
 
jack and sasuage 69k
  
 
curtain fig tree 74k

This is The Curtain Fig Tree (Ficus virens).  The roots of the tree are what you see here decending from above.  This tree is really big and neat to look at.  
 
curtain fig tree 75k
 
last roadtrain 38k


This is the last road train we saw.  It is pulling three cattle trailers. 
  

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