Wednesday 20 April 2011

Day 6




After a very sleepless night we left Mt Isa at about 8.00am.  Once again the landscape was so varied.  It is quite interesting. We crossed the border into Northern Territory at about 10.00am,  We went through a station (cattle station) called Avon Downs and there beside road was a Police Station, nothing else, just the station.  Across the road from it was a rest area and we stopped there for morning tea.  Further along the highway there is a place called Barkly Homestead which is a fuel stop, Caravan, Motel and camping area.  We were going to stay there the night but everything was just so expensive we decided to drive on.  The next stop was called Three Ways where once again we were going to stay but it looked run down.  To cut a long story short, this went on for a few more towns and when we finally found somewhere to stay we had travelled over 900 kms.  The place we stayed at was Dunmarra and I must say, it didn't look much, basically just a roadhouse with a few motel rooms and a caravan park.  Because it was getting on a bit and we were just too tired to put up the tent,  we opted for staying in a motel room.  After a huge meal, we went to bed.

2 comments:

  1. Those pictures are lovely.
    Sounds you have a great time. Enjoy the next week :)

    Hugs karin

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  2. Wooohooooo photos at last :) Oh my sounds like you have really done quite a bit of driving. Hope both of you are taking turns driving. Hope you enjoy the rest of the week :)

    Thank you for sharing :)

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