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Richmond
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Richmond's
Fossil Museum
(daily 8.30am-4.45pm; $8) displays the petrified remains of hundred-million-year-old fish, long-necked elasmosaurs, and models of a kronosaur excavated in the 1920s by a team from Harvard University and now on show in the USA. Pride of the collection are a complete skeleton of a seal-like pliosaur - the most intact vertebrate fossil ever found in Australia - and the
minmi
ankylosaur, with its armour-plated hide.
Not many people hang around in Richmond, though it's by no means an unpleasant place - just very small. A roadside
park
makes a good spot to stretch you legs, with an original Cobb & Co
coach
and views out across the Flinders River. There's
accommodation
at the
Richmond Caravan Park
(tel 07/4741 3772; under $50), which has tent sites, "backpacker" rooms with a communal kitchen, and cabins; or
Entriken's Pioneer Motel
(tel 07/4741 3188; $50-90). The museum
cafe
is the only one in town; otherwise head to the Ampol service station on the Hughenden side of town for a feed. Other useful information
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Australia,
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