Day 66 Georgetown "riding on the range, I got my hat on, I got my boots dusty, I've got my horse....." Well partners, we stayed another day in Georgetown. The lure of the rodeo was just too great.....ok we needed to do heaps of washing and where we wanted to head to didn't have any sites for us. So we spent the first bit of the morning washing stuff and then drove to the visitors centre about 400m away to get some information about the road ahead and then wen...

Day 65 Karumba - Normanton - Croydon - Georgetown "Country girl shake it for me....." Yee hah - roll up folks it's Rodeo time in the Queensland Outback. We were up and ready to roll out at 8am today. I enjoyed my time in Karumba but would find it hard to justify spending any more than 2 nights here unless of course you (a) had a boat, (b) wanted to fish all day and everyday or (c) wanted to escape the winter and do (a),(b) or just sit around and do nothing at...

Day 62 Karumba "I'm heading out where the water is much deeper. I'll save myself from saving you......" I once caught a fish this big..... I've always wanted to travel to the Gulf of Carpentaria and go fishing. Ideally for Barramundi and catch a huge one that will feed a small village, however, seeing as its too cold in the water for Barra just now, I was happy just to go fishing. I dont do a lot of fishing you see but I do enjoy it though, but really only if...

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...