14th July, 2013. Mt Surprise - Tolga 252 kms We have had word some of our friends have not been receiving our blog hence a quick one tonight with the hope I have fixed all the problems. We left home 24th June and have travelled through Griffith, Lake Cargeligo, Bourke, Cunnamulla, Quilpie, Winton (Dinosaurs), Mt Isa (for a dentist appt. I broke a tooth) the onto Lawn Hill, Burketown, Normanton, Karumba, a day tour of the Undara Lava Tubes and here we ar...

9th July. Burketown to Normanton. 221 kms. As were a little disappointed in Burketown we had greater expectations for Normanton. 1st up was pick up our puncture repaired tyre at Service Station. Our journey took us on another dirt road of varying quality but mostly not good, dusty, corrugated and rough but some work was in progress. We stopped for a look at Leichardt Falls really beautiful scenery I could have stayed but we pressed on. (No falls in sight not ...

3rd July, Wednesday, Winton to Cloncurry Rest Area. The best laid plans of mice and men..... We had packed and almost ready to leave Winton heading for Hughendon when, Oh gosh I had lost a filling in a back tooth. Change of plans and find out where nearest dentist was. A quick to trip to the I centre who very obligingly gave me phone numbers for Longreach, Cloncurry and Mt Isa. We ruled out Longreach to far to go backwards. Ringing Cloncurry they had a clinic a...

Saturday 29th June, Cunnamulla to Toompine 223km After a walk around the park in the morning we left mid morning on the start of our trek to see the dinosaurs Travelling along the Bulloo developmdntal road we turned north toward Quilpie. The coutry side changed from crops to cattle and sheep mainly sheep and began to become more sparse in flora more scrubby than earlier. We had heard about the pub with no town so when we approached Toompine and saw it decided t...

Nothing to stop us we were on our way early. A stop in Bourke for fuel, an early lunch and a look at this beautiful building being renovated. We neared the border and stopped in to see Mrs Crawley at the Tattersalls Hotel just before the Q'ld border for a beer for Bill and soft drink for me. We met Mrs Crawley 2 years ago a wonderful elderly lady(probably mid 80's) running a pub on her own the only other people nearby across the road is some sort of a mixed bus...