Barkly Homestead 2015

QLD/NT border.

Van's at Barkly Homestead.

Only in the NT ... 

Not a sign you need if you are running short of fuel.

Wicked Van ...

Camooweal 2015

Nomads on the road.

Statue at Camooweal town centre.

  

Post Office Hotel in Camooweal.

Wetlands near Camooweal.

Just emptying the wallet again in Camooweal ... diesel at $1.769 a litre.

Still a way to go ... next stop Barkly Homestead

Quaffing down a Great Northern Beer at the Post Office Hotel.

Mt Isa 2015

Fuel consumption on this vehicle is really great.

Mt Isa from the town lookout.

Road train going thru Mt Isa.

Entrance to the underground hospital in Mt Isa .... built during WW2

The hospital was built in case the Japanese Bombed Mt Isa.

This Linen cupboard was found intact when the hospital was re-discovered.

Cooking my meal at Mt Isa.

This stack is 270 metres tall.

 Tour mine in town.

Currently have travelled close to 3000 Klm's since leaving home with about 1600 Klm's to go before we hit Darwin.

Averaging 14.4/100 Klm's.

Weather in Mt Isa today was 32 degrees and not a cloud in the sky.

Next stop will be Camooweal which is the last town in QLD before we enter NT.

Around Cloncurry 2015

There is one in every town ... PMG must have made millions of these. 

The pedal generator invented by Alfred Traeger.

Model plane of the original RFDS plane.

On holiday's but still working ... life is a bitch.

Chinamen's Dam at Cloncurry.

Reason not to swim here. 

Bridge over the Cloncurry River.