Dinosaur Stampede Tours

Carisbrooke Station and Dinosaur Stampede Day Tour

We travel to Carisbrooke Station to marvel at the natural wonders and history of this spectacular location. See the Three Outback Sisters and just sit back and enjoy the open expanse of the landscape. We then travel to the Dinosaur Stampede at Lark Quarry Conservation Park where we enjoy the guided tour of the footprints and have time to enjoy a stroll around the spinifex walking track. There's so much more than just dinosaurs!

Tour Includes:
- Site tour at the Dinosaur Stampede at Lark Quarry
- Morning tea
- Lunch
- Access fee to Carisbrooke Station (private property)

Departs: Monday and Thursday (April to October)
Duration: Full Day - 7.5 hours
Time: 8.30am to 4.00pm

Discounts available if you have pre-purchased a Dinosaur Stampede ticket or combination pass such as the Dinosaur Trail or Winton Dinosaur Capital pass with AAOD. Please contact me via email.
NOTE: This tour does not include the Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum.

More About Carisbrooke Station

More about Carisbrooke Station...
Carisbrooke is a working cattle station that we have permission to visit on a regular basis - it is not possible to visit the station on your own.
Carisbrooke has some spectacular views along the escarpment of the Cory Range and across the valley filled with flat grazing country. One of the spectacular rock features is the Three Outback Sisters. But there is plenty to see. And, there is also a lot of interesting history including early sheep and cattle grazing history and the landing site of the plane "The Swoose" in 1942.
Really, it's great just to get off the beaten track and see some of the country side that you wouldn't even know was there!

MORE ABOUT THE DINOSAUR STAMPEDE

More about the Stampede...
The Dinosaur Stampede at Lark Quarry Conservation Park preserves approximately 3300 dinosaur footprints that were made approximately 95 million years ago by the animals that roamed the land at the time. It's thought that the wet environment at the time contained forests, swamps and flood plains through which the animals walked and ran doing their daily business. As a snapshot of one moment in time, a group, or groups, of animals ran through some mud near a water hole. The footprints left in the mud were covered by sand and mud and then more layers of mud and sand, drying out to become rock buried deep beneath the land surface.

Millions of years later, as our landscape eroded away, parts of the ancient landscape have been exposed, including the edge of the layer of rock that contains those footprints. Through relatively serendipitous circumstances those footprints were uncovered by paleontologists (and a volunteer named Malcolm Lark) in the 1970's and preserved by Queensland Parks and Wildlife as a Conservation Park (Lark Quarry Conservation Park) and was also the first site to be listed on Australia's list of National Monuments (Dinosaur Stampede National Monument).

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