Dig the Tropic - Outback to the Reef
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Take a magical mystery Geotour across the
Tropic of Capricorn. Be fascinated by the stories that unfold and discover how the preservation of our past
might also predict our future.
Visit the ancient above-ground Capricorn Caves situated 23km north of Rockhampton. Specialist tours run by the Queensland Museum offer the dedicated palaeo tourist the opportunity to join them in uncovering the fossil remains of bulldog-sized ringtail possums, gigantic pythons known as mastoid snakes and Australia's largest fossil frog.
The story of the limestone of Camoo Caves in Mt Etna Caves National Park unfolds along an interpretive walk. The limestone of Camoo Caves is a 380 million year old fossilised coral reef which is proved by numerous fossil specimens. The cave is also famous for its bat inhabitants, among them the rare ghost bat, Australia's largest carnivorous bat.
Just 40km south-west of Rockhampton, the open cut gold mine at Mt Morgan is part of an historical tour of the town which includes man-made caves. In 1954 formations of the ceiling of these caves were analysed, and found to be 150 million year old dinosaur footprints - the oldest record of its kind in Australia.
