Sunday 5th September 2021
Our first stop today was a quick trip back to the Kronosaurus Museum to watch a short video explaining about the fossils that have been found in the area. This was the best part of the museum as it showed how the area had changed from 110 million years ago, life like images of the fossils and how they lived. It helped make the fossils come alive and made it all the more interesting. They should tell their patrons to watch the video first as you definitely get a much better appreciation of the fossils afterwards.

We then headed on our way north along the Richmond-Croydon Rd from Richmond to Croydon, then headed east towards Georgetown, a 461km drive. There was very little traffic on the road north (340km), maybe about 5 cars in total. The road was bitumen for about 1/3 of the way, ever-changing dirt colours for the rest. Then as we headed east the traffic increased but it wasn’t too bad. I drove for about 2.5 hours. We stopped about 25km west of Georgetown at Cumberland Dam where we will camp for the night. We enjoyed a bird watching walk around the dam where we saw an egret, emu, magpie geese, straw necked ibis, comb crested jacana, the little kingfisher and pale headed lorikeets. There are many more birds on signs here so hopefully we will see some more tomorrow.