29 June 2014

Well today is going to be a brief one really as it was not much other than just driving along a straight line, ok there were a few bends but mot much else really. The landscape changes just out of Mt Isa to flat plains and there really isn't much difference from there through over the border and on into the Northern Territory, it's dry all the way and there is next to no water in any of the creeks and rivers, I think they are breeding cattle that can eat dirt and rocks here, there isn't anything else out there on the Queensland side..

I made a few stops along the way, a couple to take pictures, mostly just to stretch though as it gets a bit uncomfortable over very long distances. It was at one of these stops I noticed a van painted to look a Wicked Camper, it wasn't but it was a cheap tourist van. On my way out of the parking area they flagged me down and asked for a lift to the Barkly Roadhouse to get help as they had killed it. I told them I could give one a lift so they debated and decided that they would wait for someone else to come along. Anyway I got about 5 kilometres up the road towards the Barkly and thought I just couldn't leave them there so went back and rearranged everything so they could get in and the Mighty Count came to the rescue, well we left them at the roadhouse to whatever fate came along.

Ok Pictures and that is it really:

 They sure put a camber on the roads in Queensland

 Seriously this is the biggest windmill I have ever seen, the diameter is bigger than the length of the Count!

 Very outback scene, big windmill, brown grass, big sky, grafitti, actually no there isn't that much graffiti anywhere, it seems to be the large cities that have all that 

 Queensland side, again I ask who thought it was a good location for a cattle farm?

 Camooweal main street (the highway), looking back to QLD

 Camooweal looking towards NT

Finally crossing into a new State/Territory, the Count has never been into NT, WA or SA before.

Notice the difference between the QLD photos above and the NT photos, brown grass instead of just dirt

Day in Tennant Creek tomorrow