Families Travel
Digging for
REAL DINOSAURS By Karen Ghidella
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s a Mum of twin 5 year old boys, there have been quite a few ridiculous things I’ve said over the years. “Don’t lick the dinosaur bones kids, they’re 95 million years old, it’s a little gross”. I think this one tops it.
We returned home from our 14 day road trip through Outback Queensland with a handful of fossils and a huge bucket full of rocks. They’re hidden away and ready to examine for fossils on a rainy day. Up until a year ago I had no idea that Queensland has the world’s only recorded dinosaur stampede, that you can dig for REAL dinosaur fossils, that OUR country has an attraction that’s real, that’s fun, that’s educational, that tops anything you’ll ever see and do at Disneyland! And… I had no idea that this city chick (whose idea of “roughing it” is staying at a motel that doesn’t have room service) could actually do this! I took along my friend Shakira (a Mum from my kids’ school, I accidentally called her Anastacia for 6 months after meeting her and she never corrected me, so I figured she’d be able to put up with me for a few weeks). We took our kids, left our hubbies at home and explored the outback with not much more than a tent, our clothes and several bags full of random stuff that we really shouldn’t have packed.
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Your Local Families Magazine - December/January 2016