Easter 2014 Lawn Hill trip Day 8

Got up a bit after 6:30 am while it was still darkish. I packed up and a breakfast of an Ice Break iced coffe and hit the road about 7 am when the sun was above the horizon and I headed south towards Winton. I eventually found the sign to the waterhole (Combo Waterhole Conservation Park) just south of Kynuna and about 200 kms away from where I thought it would be. Just past Winton I decided to drop in and have a look at the "Age of Dinosaurs" display. It was well setup and I quite enjoyed the tour of their fossil processng lab. 

Then it was on to Longreach to refuel the car and myself. All the way down from Cloncurry it felt like I had been driving into a headwind and it showed in the fuel economy with the downhill (north to south) trip using an extra 1.5 l/100 km. In Barcaldine I had to blow into the breathalyzer at an RBT for a bored looking policeman who sent me on my way after recording zero alcohol. As I'm going to visit Mum and Dad in Caloundra on the way home I took the turnoff to Alpha and will go a different way home. I got to Alpha at about 4:30 pm and decided to call it quits for the evening rather than trying to make it to Emerald before the sun went down. I set up camp in the caravan park and caught up with my blog before having a nice hot shower and heading to bed early.