472kms / 8 ¾ hrs Today marks week 9 and we have done 16,000 kms We were on the road by 6:30am and it was a bit chilly at 13 degrees. It's the first time in ages that I have had to put a jumper on. We saw some great wildlife including lot's of kangaroo's bouncing along the road and also across the road (no close calls as they stayed away from the car). The kids loved seeing them bouncing along. We saw about 12 camels which I was very excited about (no phot...

Winton - Longreach - Barcaldine 306 kms / 5 hrs We left the North Gregory Hotel around 7:30am and our first stop was the Musical Fence (it's a wire fence that can be played as a musical instrument and is the first permanent musical fence installation in the world. There are also other percussion instruments to play including a bush drum kit, a tank swing set and hub caps and gas bottles). We stayed for close to an hour and the kids and I had lots of fun pl...

95 kms / 1 ½ hrs Wanora Downs Rest Area - Winton We left the campsite at 8:15am and drove the short distance to Winton arriving at 9:45am. We are staying at the North Gregory Hotel which was made famous by Banjo Paterson (who wrote Waltzing Matilda in 1895 whilst visiting Dagworth Station) where he performed Waltzing Matilda for the first time in public on the 6th April, 1985. Winton is also famous for being the birthplace of Qantas which registered as...

249 kms / 3 hrs 147 kms / 2 hrs We left the caravan park around 9:30am and went to the School of the Air Mt Isa. It was really interesting watching a short DVD on how they run the school and we saw some of the kids from the largest property (which was 220,000,000 acres!). They teach approx. 160 children from a radius of 500km to the North, South, East & West. The children are on air with a teacher for 30 mins a day, 4 days per week with a maximum of 10 ...

330 kms / 5 ½ hrs NT/QLD border - Camooweal (fuel) - Mt Isa After a peaceful sleep last night we left the campsite at 7:30am. We crossed the NT/QLD border and saw 3 police vehicles and a lot of bikies (we think from the rebels). The police cars overtook us yesterday so it was nice to see them again today. Today was mainly a driving day. We spotted more police vehicles further on and another bikie gang (not sure if same club), a few wedged tail eagles ...