Nature and Wildlife in Outback QLD Australia
Natural Encounters
The crisp morning air is shattered by a high pitched alarm signaling danger. One of the herd has given the warning. It’s a huge meat-eating Theropod! And it’s ready for breakfast! The small herd of Ornithopod dinosaurs flees, stampeding through thick mud surrounding a lake.
Fast forward 95 million years. The lake has disappeared but the dinosaur’s footprints remain. The area is now known as Lark Quarry, and visitors, of the human kind, flock here in their thousands to see the only recorded dinosaur stampede on earth.
Visitors also flock to the tiny town of Eulo for a natural mud bath, said to be very therapeutic for the skin. A soak in one of several hot artesian springs will further rejuvenate the mind and body thanks to the highly mineralized waters originating from deep within the earth.
From deep down below to way up there — the Cosmos Centre and Observatory at Charleville will take you on a guided tour of the night sky through a powerful Meade telescope. The clear Outback sky makes for perfect star-gazing conditions. And while you’re in Charleville get to know the endangered Australian Bilby, and find out what we can do to ensure its survival.
