This will probably be a boring blog as nothing has happened yet. After arriving in Cairns we settled into our super hotel free on points. After being locked up in our camper Lisa, Joy and I had space to stretch out. Lisa scored her own room but Joy still had to share with me. No long walks to the shower and a balcony overlooking the ocean sweet/suite. Waking in the morning we prepared for our Great Barrier Reef snorkel trip with a rather large breakfast buffet w...

 Well arriving with the heat and Crickets in Longreach we parked in a 500 site park with just three neighbors. It was 105 degrees and our a/c was struggling. We set up shop and headed for the pool, it was greenish and that kept Joy out I went in. Too hot to eat we did laundry which dried no lie in 15 minutes on a line. The wind was blowing the 105 degree heat around and there wasn't a tree around. *** In the morning it had cooled to 90 degrees which felt lik...

     Out of Camooweal we rolled early heading towards Winton. Not much excitement this day we rolled up on Mount Isa town around noon and saw our first McDonalds in weeks but not to worry we passed that and kept the pedal to the metal. The road got a bit twisty threw the small hills we were passing between Mt Isa and Cloncurry but once we made the Matilda Highway it was flat out again. * ** Somehow I had read the map wrong thinking Crocodile Dundees bar wa...

Northbound out of Alice Springs we rolled with thoughts of the Devils Marbles and a cold one at the Roadhouse. The road had changed from flat greenish desert to western USA looking "Jump Ups" as they call them, basically table top looking hills. The road actually had some bends in it and small hills that "Icy" the motorhome buzzed up. We caught up with some road trains and an occasional southbound car but it was 108 at times and everybody and everything seemed to...