After leaving Karumba we headed to a little place called Mount Surprise. its a little town of only 61 people with a really nice caravan park. from here we did a tour of the Undara lava tubes and did some gem fossicking. The lava tubes were pretty amazing with some really nice colors and a lot bigger than we expected. basically when the volcano erupted the lava followed the river beds and the outside formed a crust with the lava still flowing inside, because the l...

Today was the big day.......... this morning pop and i had a fishing charter booked to go catch a barra. The reports wern't in our favour for barra as the water was a little cold but the odd big barra were still being caught and they had been catching heaps of blue salmon. The boat was leaving at 6.50am so the plan was to get up at 6.15am and go. I woke up at 6am to hear the wind blowing, that wasnt a concern as it normally drops off as the sun rises. i got up (a...

We have been sitting here in Mount Isa enjoying the sunshine (30 odd degrees) and relaxing for the last couple of days. Mt Isa is a nicer town than i expected, even though the mine is right in town its not as dirty/dusty as i expected. We did an underground mine tour this morning and that was great. Tomorrow we start the trek further nth stopping at Bourke and Wills roadhouse and then onto Karumba for a crack at catching a barra :-)

We had a very relaxing time in Alice, we spent a couple of days just bumming around the caravan park and fixing a few small things on the car, repairing the damaged item's on the camper and restocking food. I had airbags fitted to the back of the Pajero to help with how it sits when towing. The Macdonnel ranges caravan park was probably one of the best parks i have been to (although the pool could have been a lot warmer according to the kids) we had stargazing 1 ...

Well we made it to Alice Springs in 1 piece. Before leaving birdsville we went and had a crack at big red (its a big sand dune for the non 4wd folk) and made it over the top on the 3rd go. After leaving birdsville we headed down the Birdsville track for Clayton station, to get to Clayton station we had to cross the Cooper creek using the ferry. I had to remove the spare wheel carrier to fit on the ferry but we made it on unlike so other people who were turned awa...