Winton To Cloncurry and on to Mount Isa

Sat 13/03 Left Longreach and headed off for Winton. We drove to the Dinosaurs and had to unhitch out van to get up a 'Jump Up' a big hunk of rock that just pops out of a flat plain, this is where the display was, lots of secret stuff that was so secret that tthey could tell us about it. Our tour guide was Freddy a young aboriginal fellow who went to Caboolture high. We arrived at Winton around 1.00 only to find that everything was closed except the pubs, we pulled up a stake out the back of the Gregory Hotel for a free stay only to hit a post with the van and now we have some extra yellow paint down the side. John and I spent the afternoon having a few beers and betting on the horses with the locals and arrived back at the camp a little worse for wear but we did have a good time. Met the local school principal nice guy arrived from Brisbane a couple of years back. He believes that the School of the Air will take over small county towns.

Sun 14/03 Went to the musical fence for a laugh, I tried to upload a video of Tricebut it wouldn't work a real shame because it was a good laugh. Left for Mount Isa, very flat plain land nothing much to see other than a couple of emus and lots of ant nests.We lost John and Will while we were at the musical fence so we headed off hoping to catch them. We pulled in the "Walkabout Hotel" which is where Crockodile Dundee was filmed and had a refreshing ale 250 klms down the road. We found John and Wil, they were actually behind us trying to catch us. We met our first crowd, some people from Melbourne who were taking their dutch friends for a site seeing tour around Australia. We pulled into Cloncurry for lunch, nice little town, and headed off in search of the Burke and Wills memorial as well as the Mary Kathleen ghost town, we found them but didn't stay for long. After over 400klms here we are in Mount Isa at the Top Tourist Caravan park, having a rest ready for tomorrow. We have now passed the halfway mark with Darwin 1600 klms and Brisbane 1850klms.