Eromanga

After being given the tip by a local at Windorah we headed to Eromanga on a newly sealed road. We were unable to pin this on our Wikicamps App though. The kids were keen to see some dinosaurs so we headed to the little town to see where Australia’s largest dinosaur was found. Eromanga claims to be Australia’s furthest inland town. There are plenty of locals here that have never seen the ocean. After our dinosaur tour we learnt that Eromanga was once situated on the edge of the Eromanga Inland Sea (existing in the early cretaceous period). We were also surprised to find that compared to other outback towns we were able to find some cheap fuel (a self serve station).

Eromanga National History Museum

The museum was still in planning stages and we were shown a plan for their future visions. They plan to have a caravan park on site, eating areas and large museum. The leg of the dinosaur ‘Cooper’ already reaches the roof of the current shed. Even though they have a long way to go here we thought it was fantastic as we have been to lots of museums but it’s not too often you get to have a behind the scene tour like this one. I was amazed at how a 14 year old boy found the first bone and brought it in to be checked. It looked like a rock I would have just glanced over. There are other dinosaur digs they are working on, but Cooper is their main big project. We got to see how they transport the bones, how they extract them from the plaster casing and even got to feel some bones and fossils. The photo taken is a replica of the bones although during this tour we even got taken out the back to see the actual bones found. The museum also have 2 week digs each year that you can help out with.