Day 63 Cloncurry - Burke & Wills Roadhouse - Normanton - Karumba " city boy taking heart without a second glance, he journeys past the mountains just to watch the brolga dance..." Ay Karumba this place is full! You can't fit anymore people, caravans, boats and stuff in the one place surely! But, we made it to Gulf Country and it's a pretty spot too. It's just that everyone else thinks so as well and so decide to spend the whole of winter here! We left our roa...

Day 62 Barkly Homestead - Camoweal - Mount Isa - Cloncurry "can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are shooting stars, I could really use a wish right now......." Saw a shooting star tonight in the clear sky surrounded by millions of stars! It was cold this morning! Well cold for us on this trip. We've gotten used to the 30 degree days and so to be 6 degrees this morning was a cruel reality check for us! We rolled out of Barkly at 7.30 ready for anot...

Day 61 Daly Waters - Barkly Homestead "ohh out on the highway, ohh out on the airwaves, yeah yeah yeah yeah. Over the radio, your heart starts beatin now....." Hit my first kangaroo today.... I had no chance of swerving to avoid it, the thing was on a mission to cross the road and we happened to be in its way! I knocked it clear off the road too - lucky it was only one of the small Euro Roos - only damage done was a dislodged light cover that just popped back ...

Day 60 Mataranka - Daly Waters "But they drink it down and nearly drowned as fast they ever did Only one thing hasn’t changed outback, the pubs still make a quid..." Daly Waters will always give you a great nights entertainment! It was quite breezy and for the first time on our trip, cold this morning. We rolled out of Mataraka at about 9.30 to continue south down the Stuart Highway to Daly Waters. The circus was long gone by that time - probably half way ...

Day 57 Mataranka Homestead "But the people come, the people pay, they pay to watch me every day, as I jump through my hoop of fire....." The circus came to town today..... We had a sleep in this morning... Up by 8am and ready for another hectic day of relaxing in the thermal pools. We first went for a drive into town to the Mataranka Markets - wow there were 4 tables of 'stuff' - on our way over to the other side of town to watch some Barramundi feeding. The...