Miles and miles of remote straight roads once again. Headed down to theThree Ways where we refuelled then headed east along the Barkly Highway towards the Northern Territory / Queensland border. The landscape is not so barren - more grass & trees and a lot softer terrain. Lots of roadtrains and quite a few caravans heading north to warmer climes.
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| More remote straight roads |
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| A Bar at the Three Ways Roadhouse dedicated to the Roadtrain drivers with pictures, number plates etc. |
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| Barkly Roadhouse |
As we travelled along we notice some cattle being mustered - the jackaroos (and jillaroos) were attempting to move a herd of cattle across the highway into a paddock on the other side. As you will see from the pics below - there were a few runnaways that needed chasing!
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| The one that tried to get away!! |
Yeah! Back home in Queensland - only 2327km to go to Cooroy!
At one point on the side of the road we saw what looked like the remains of a caravan - the winds are very strong sometimes across the open plains - you can feel them buffeting the van. We are pleased that we have a heavy 4x4 to tow it.
Just after we crossed the border we arrived at Camooweal where we refuelled before driving on towards Mount Isa, an important mining town.
We stopped for the night at another free camp on the side of the road about 50km west of Mount Isa. There were a couple of caravans and some campervans already there. It was a WWII site that they used when building a new road to enable them to move transport and machinery up to Darwin when the Japanese threat to Northern Australia became more apparent. No water, no power but there was a bbq.
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| Terry catching up on the News\ |
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| WWII free camp |
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| WWII free camp |
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