tiabunna's photos with the keyword: Winton

It's fair to say I was so surprised to see this coach appearing (PiP) in Winton that I almost dropped the camera. Wishing everyone a Happy Bench Monday and a great week to follow.

Winton is a fascinating little town, surprisingly so in view of a permanent population of a little under 900. For example, this is the "Waltzing Matilda Centre" , opened in 1998, as it was in this area that A.B. "Banjo" Patterson (see his statue in the PiP) wrote the poem that became Australia's best known song in the late 1800s. Click here and sing along. Following that, a meeting here in 1920 founded Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services - these days better known as QANTAS. Then, as I have shown in my previous image , the discovery of dinosaur fossils nearby has led to the construction of the "Australian Age of Dinosaurs" museum a short distance out of town.

Fence at the Age of Dinosaurs Museum coffee / eatery area - presumably to keep dinosaurs away. :-) The Museum is built on one of the flat-topped hills I have shown in the area, known as the "Jump-up" - the PiPs show further images from the access road . Wishing everyone a Happy Fence Friday and a great weekend.

Taken at the "Age of Dinosaurs" museum at Winton, this is their recreation of Australovenator wintoniensis , found locally and given the popular name "Banjo". The museum was created some years ago after a local grazier found dinosaur bones and gained support for ongoing searches, research and a public museum. This whole area is/was dinosaur country! Also see PiPs and a Happy Wall Wednesday, everyone.