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Canadian fossil hunters spend six months camping in outback Queensland each year, call it 'home'

Barbara Flewelling crawls out of her tent pitched on the dusty red plains of north-west Queensland where she has been camping for the past six months.  

For more than 14 years, the 79-year-old Canadian and her husband, Gary, have been taking extended trips to the outback town of Richmond.

"As long as our bodies let us crawl in and out of that tent, we will continue doing so," she says.

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