We returned to the Museum the next morning after a very cold night. We discovered when we returned from the picture theatre that the heater in our room did not work! Needless to say, we snuggled.
The Jump-Up off in the distance (about 10 km).
Fortunately, we came at the right time of year so we didn't have to do the 'Aussie Salute'.
Entrance to the Laboratory.
Beginning display of fossils.
A tour guide led us into the main storage area.
Numerous fossils were on display.
Bigger fossils are carefully wrapped and then encased in a hardened plaster.
Actual dinosaur bones that we were allowed to touch. You don't do that every day.
The major large finds are all given names.
It's painstaking work. Definitely not for me.
Part of a tree branch from the time of the dinosaurs. There was plenty of water back then and trees grew to enormous heights.
Volunteers removing the dirt and dust from specimens.
A case ready to be broken open.
I reckon Marianne and Robin should give this a go. I spoke to one of the volunteers who comes for a week every year. You are given a whole five minutes training, mostly involving how to turn the tool on and off and where to point it at. They spend about six hours a day feeling really good about themselves for doing something very useful. I would not feel so good.
I can't imagine being presented with something like this and being expected to clean it up.
A view from the Jump-Up as we drove down the hill.
It was Census Day in Australia, so the forms awaited us at our motel. The next morning, a young Polish lady who cleaned rooms at the motel collected the forms. Many backpackers in Oz come on work visas where they are required to spend time in the outback as well as in the big cities. Consequently, most staff in the tourist industry are foreign.
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