After leaving Quilpie, we had discussed stopping the night at the Roadhouse at Cooladdi. We arrived here at 2.30pm, hadn't had any lunch and at looking at the camp area, we decided to stop for lunch at the roadhouse and then move on. The Cooladdi Roadhouse is run by a mother and daughter team, it has pig trophies hanging off the walls, you can buy souvenirs, meals and drinks but no fuel. We ordered a hamburger each, huge mistake…. The burgers were massive, on...

So many wallabies, pigs, emus and three sheep were the roadkill on the road from Longreach to Stonehenge. Just before arriving at Stonehenge we came across the Stonehenge Address Book, where tourist put the town they are from, marked with rocks, alongside the road. The town of Stonehenge is one of three areas in Australia chosen as a base for a radar defence initiative to guard our coastline. It is also has an earthquake monitoring installation to provide an ear...

After getting the read-out of the data logger, the expert informs us that the fridge is cycling beautifully. Yet we both know that it's not turning off at nighttime. After stocking up on food in Mount Isa, we went in search of the Variety Club bash cars. On our inquiry at the Visitors Information Centre, they weren't even aware the bash was coming through town, we went in search for the cars at the showground and had been directed to the Special School but to no ...

We stopped at Bitter Springs for our last float, first thing in the morning. It was the best time as not many people there before 10am. The campers from the caravan parks all stayed near the entrance and talked, so we had the springs to ourselves. It was fantastic floating down with the peace and quite whilst watching the steam coming off the water. Once down at Daly Waters Pub, we booked into a powered site…..Yes we paid $32….but as we were having issues wi...

After leaving Mum's we headed up the Kidman Way and stopped our first night beside the water at the Griffith Wilow Park Rest Area. We arrived to rain but that stopped for us to get outside for cannaloni for dinner. The night was mild. The following day we travelled 482km on great roads. Weather is getting warmer. Lots of goats on the road and verges. Pulled into the Kinchela Rest Area about 30km south of Bourke. Heaps of off road parking out the back in the grave...