Next up was the Burke and Wills monument, it appears that they crossed this spot in 1861 on their way across the continent. Good enough for a plaque and stone monument really.
Wonder if Burke and Wills had the same problem. Come on people it's the middle of nowhere do you really have to "TAG" it
From here it was on to Mary Kathleen, as mentioned previously it was a mine and it was closed down a couple of times before finally being closed up completely in 1984 and the entire place, all the buildings, were sold off and freighted around the country. All of the roads are slowly starting to be reclaimed by nature but there are plenty of them left, it really is quite and interesting place but the road in sure leaves a lot to be desired, though I guess it is all private property now, so why would they rebuild the road. That said though there were a number of people with caravans "free camping" on the old site, so they must have come in very slowly and carefully.
The main "roundabout" at the start of the town
Amazing to think that in 1984 these were still "suburban" streets
The old swimming pools
The main causeway into town
On again and into Mount Isa, it was a short drive and quite good really nearly no traffic and all nice and relaxed, I haven't had a really good look around yet, will do that tomorrow, so just a couple of pics to be going along with.
First view of the town is the giant smoke stacks
From the city lookout
Big barrel, who knew they had one and on the Irish Club too
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