Wellington

Next day we drove to Wellington, a town 50 kilometres south east of Dubbo. In 1817 the area was named Wellington Valley after the Duke of Wellington and the victory over the French at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.

At the entrance to the visitor area at the Wellington Caves we saw a statue of a diprotodon. We did not visit the actual caves as each cave had too many irregular steps to navigate.

Excavations in the area have discovered remains of megafauna. We spent  time in the exhibition area where there was a model skeleton of a diprotodon. Diprotodon became extinct in Australia more than 25,000 years ago. Visual displays on the walls show some of the animals that used to roam the area or lived in the inland sea.

We then explored the fossil trail - lots of flint and and a variety of fossils in rocks to be seen. 

Near the caves is a series of art-work known as the Wellington Gateway.

Back in Dubbo we had lunch at the Grapevine Café.