OUTBACK AUSTRALIA

From here on you can drive at 130 km per hour

From Georgetown we travelled via Croydon, Normanton up to Karumba where we stayed the night. We experienced an incredible sunset and had a great dinner at the Sunset Tavern. The following day we travelled towards Cloncurry and Mt Isa.

This is really the outback of Australia and what you experience is: cattle, wildlife dead and alive along the road, birds and road trains, caravans and other travellers.

You stop and fuel up and eat at the road houses and they must be a gold mine to run.

The road sometimes has only got one lane and if you meet a road train here you have to get off the road. This was quite challenging and we prayed and hoped not to meet any at the most difficult passages. The road trains are huge and it takes them about 2 kms to stop safely. We had to get off the road once only and the other times we were at a two-lane stretch as it alternates between one and two lanes.

Some distances are long and boring as the roads are as straight as a ruler and we have downloaded some audio books from the net to keep us alert and entertained. We have listened to Clinton and Obama so far and are quite enlightened about the States domestic and foreign politics now.