It had been an awful night and neither of us had got much sleep. We couldn’t wait to get out of ‘The Isa’. We decided to have breakfast somewhere else so left as soon as we could. The weather was a lot better today. The sun was out and ‘The Isa’ did look marginally less awful today. We drove past the huge mine that dominated the place and out of town. We were very relieved to see ‘The Isa’ fall away into the distance alon...

We had brekky whilst we watched a massive road train arrive and unload provisions for the road house. We also had company from dozens of cheeky birds that came down to feast near the camper. There were loads of them. They had spotted some rice that came out with our bucket of dish water last night. They were squabbling over it and they were an amazing sight to see. We hit the road about nine. The first section of the drive took us south down to Cloncurry where we...

It was red hot when we left Karumba. We had to follow the road back to Normanton first and then we hit the highway south in the direction of Cloncurry which was nearly 500 kilometres away. Cloncurry is where we join the main highway across to the Northern Territory and the red centre. Our intention was to get about half way to Cloncurry and stop the night at the Burke & Wills Roadhouse. After Normanton some of the road was single file again and we kept a good...

It had been an unbelievably hot night but we did manage to get some sleep. After brekky we went to have a look at Krys the Savannah King who was situated just round the corner on Normanton's main street. Krys the Croc is an accurate artist's impression of the largest recorded saltwater crocodile captured in the world. He was 8.63 metres long which is incredibly large. The statue of him was an amazing sight to see. It is incredible that a crocodile was this big. I...

It had been a hot night again. It was lovely and sunny today and after brekky we hit the highway again. We had a long drive ahead of us to Normanton over 300 kilometres away. The roads were very quiet again and so enjoyable to drive on despite the single lane sections, although there weren't as many of those today. Most of the drivers coming the other way waved at us, but not all of them. Upon analysis today we have ascertained that there are some drivers that wi...