Friday September 16 2022

Another long drive from Alice Springs up to the Three ways turnoff to Barkly Homestead. We have been there before, so knew the drill. It was 38°! I had a bit of a float around in their pool to cool down. We finally got the air-conditioning on cold, after forgetting we'd used it on heater while we were down south. Duh! 

No TV, no phone signal, so we read until bedtime (early), which meant we had a very early 7.30 am departure to Mt Isa. The road was very good for most of the way until the last 100 km or so to the border, which is hardly noticeable except for the few people who stopped for a photo of the smallish sign.

Back in Qld!

We're in Mt Isa for two nights (a) for a break to do some washing and shopping, and (b) because The Lions are playing Geelong tonight in the Aussie Rules preliminary final knock-out match (and the new series of The Handmaid's Tale was on last night).

Yay, actual channel choices!

We came to the Argylla caravan park where we've always stayed in Mt Isa, but found it almost deserted and quite run down. However, we had our choice of spots and have the ablutions block practically to ourselves.

35° when we arrived and again today and 19 overnight.

Longreach tomorrow. 31° and 15 overnight predicted. All the winter clothes are stashed away again and swapped for the summer stash.


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