Vacation At Canowindra

While you are in Canowindra and after you have finished with hot air ballooning, there is one thing more to do before you head off with Campervan Hire Sydney. Before you leave Canowindra, you simply must visit the fish museum. Yes, you read that right. Just as Cowra features in current military history, so does Canowindra feature in fish fossil history from the Devonian Period.

First, you want to look back and remember Jurassic Park, when dinosaurs ruled the world. In the Jurassic Period, they actually did. Well, before the Jurassic Period and the dinosaurs, there had been the Age Of Fishes in the Devonian Period. It also appears that the brooks of western, central New South Wales were literally rammed with ancient fish creatures, most of them quite peculiar.

You want to fantasize fish of all sorts, some with armoured shells, lungs and some massive predators with crocodile like jaws. If you enjoy this type of thing, go and visit the Fish Museum in Canowindra where you can see the fossils which were first discovered , solely by chance, in 1956, right there in Canowindra. Thousands of these fossils were discovered from the Devonian Period and are now on display.

The 1956 discovery comprised a fossil bed of in depth proportions and has since then been dated as a 360 million year old formation. 3 and a half thousand fossilised fish, many of them new species, are on public display in Canowindra, just a short distance from where they were revealed in the 1950's.

The Museum not only displays these fossils, but have gone one step further and proudly display re-creations of fish life in the Devonian Period. They have also very thoughtfully provided some live aquarium displays also. So do visit this area, as it contains all kind of wonders, most of which you would never expect to see in a small country city.

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