It's hard to remember the brutality of it but yes, just 70km from here in Normanton it was HOT and before that in Cloncurry - HOT. Winton - HOT. Longreach - (pretty) HOT. Dry and hot. Not a drop of moisture in the air hot. Walk out and hang out the washing come back in and need a shower hot. Long for a shopping centre just to get into air-conditioning hot. Jude all red in the face, get out the water sprayer hot. Flies sticking to you hot. I think maybe you get...

I SEE THE SEA We have finally made it back to the big blue and it doesn't take too many days in the increasingly hotter outback, camping in a (very quickly) very hot van to appreciate a sea breeze. Never mind the crocodiles. My trip was made today just shy of Bourke and Wills roadhouse when we saw half a dozen jack- and jillaroos mustering cattle along the side of the road. I remember seeing it (with sheep) around the Hay area when I was a kid but having trav...

Well we pick up our intrepid adventurers in the little town of Injune not too far north of Roma where we last left them. When asked at the tourist info what there was to do in Injune the answer quickly supplied was 'Not much'. The town acts as a stopover point for Carnarvon Gorge and apart from spending $41 a night for a site at the caravan park (holiday resort??) just on the edge of the National Park itself, it is about as close as you can get to stay. Well we...

I love wavers. I LOVE wavers! You know the people who acknowledge you in some way as you pass each other by? Of course it only happens on country roads, not in towns, but I think its just a real sign of fellowship that as we speed pass in our separate directions we take that half a second to lift a finger (not THAT finger) and say hello to another human being. I especially love the people who take their whole hand off the wheel and wave at you - ahhhhh I feel im...

Not sure where the river in the photo is - it could have been one of the many rivers I have camped along - but today there is no photo content because I am having my first McDonalds wifi experience and am not bringing my hard drive. Today we find ourselves in Roma and this morning we had a great experience at the Roma Sale yards listening to the auctioning off of 'Prime' cattle and even more interestingly watching the stockmen herd the sold batches of cattle int...