The country around Cloncurry and through to Mt Isa is spectacular at the minute. I expected the area to be flat and dusty, but it’s actually hilly and covered with green grass and wattles in bloom. Interspersed with these are many small pointy brown termite mounds and other pale-coloured wildflowers. This could be a better than usual season because it’s been a wet 12 months across Qld. Speaking of wet, and cold, it seems I spoke a little too soon yesterday. ...

Great day today, no packing and no driving! Leisurely day just doing some washing and having play time. And the weather, well it was about as pearly and peachy as you could wish for, mild-to-warm and sunny, maximum of about 27, but with a cool easterly breeze making it feel more like 23. We are full of smugness seeing the chilly weather reports for the southern states ... in the middle of the afternoon today it was 13 degrees at home and with wind chill it felt l...

Came back to earth a little today, drove 500km without much to see. We did pass some interesting landforms about 60-80km north of Winton, which I wished I’d stopped at. We had lunch at Combo Waterhole near Kynuna ... ’twas a bit warm and humid walking to it, but very cold in the water itself. Got some pretty good shots of a new raptor, possibly Black Kite, there, too. Other than that, just driving straight and flat. But we’re in Cloncurry, camped amongst B...

This cute little froggie lives in the tank at the rest area where we are camped, 25km north of Longreach. It’s been a magical outback evening, out amongst the scrub, peaceful and quiet, gorgeous sunset, campfire, mild temperature, sky and stars. Love it! We started the day with another walk along the main street of Tambo, taking some photos in the morning sunshine. As we headed out of town, Jesse said, “I’m sick of travelling, I’m homesick and I miss my...

Pffft! Not even halfway to Katherine yet!