Mount Isa Qld, Mighty Mining Town: (Saturday 6 through to Tuesday 9 October 2012) Our ride from Cloncurry to Mount Isa was an easy short one, being only about 118 km, and through really beautiful breakaway rocky hilly country. The rocks are a light orange colour. We had to watch out for the usual brown hawks again, feeding on road kill. And we arrived in Mount Isa at 10am. First choice was a caravan park near town and shops, but an inspection of their camp kitc...

Outback ride to Cloncurry 5th October 2012 Just a short one today so we have a chance to look at Cloncurry. Trish flew past there in 2004 without a stop to look. Even though we have been travelling in some outback areas we are never bored with the scenery. From open dry pastoral grasslands we were now getting into gradual winding roads through low hills. There had been some recent fires and the regrowth on the grasses and trees was a luminous green against t...

Hot Karumba Bushwalk and Gorgeous Sunset: Wed 3 Oct12 Being the Mighty Intrepids, we noted that there is a new track leading from our caravan park to the main township, which is quicker than the 8km by road. So off we set early in the morning, to do this new track, both carrying water and me with 2 hiking sticks. In the wet season this walk track would be beautiful, as we could see it was now very dry wetland. Lots of little kangaroos/wallabies hopped across our...

Karumba in the Dry Season: Qld: Tues 2 Oct12 We woke up in our tent with grit in our teeth; it was windy and the caravan park is so dry and dusty that fine dust is getting in everywhere. Off we went for an early morning walk along the Gulf of Carpentaria beach; the tide was out so there were grey mud flats with mangrove roots sticking up, and lots of reefy rocks to clamber over. Being the Henny Penny that I am, I imagined the worst and thought of crocodiles, c...

Aye Karumba It's Good! Monday 1st October12 I was pleasantly surprised to find the road between Croydon to Normanton was normal two-way road all the way, with only 2 bits of roadworks. Back in 2004 when I rode through this area it was all single-laned narrow road where you had to get right off the road to let the huge road trains through. We stopped at the dry looking little old outback town of Normanton for a cool drink and a snack. I had been telling D...