Hi Folks a short post today. We packed and left Winton this morning about 1030 and drove the 350km to Cloncurry. It was pretty early when we arrived, about 2pm so after a quick consultation we decided to head through and 130km on to Mount Isa. The road between the 2 towns was quite undulating with enough road trains and tail gating courier drivers to have the road angel chirping merrily. After some map reading/gps confusion we arrived at the Moondarra Caravan park which sounded the best out of the book. It has a slightly out of town location next to a nature reserve and stream with grassed areas. All true but they didn't mention the 767's roaring down the runway on the other side of the main road! The vans are packed in here but after several laps of the park we managed to find a reasonable spot. There are a lot of small units here built into what look like shipping containers. These appear to accomodate workers in the mines/smelters etc. We ventured to the "restaurant" for tea which was actually more like a works canteen complete with overalled men who looked as if they had just come from the mines. For $20 there was a three course feed. The food was surprisingly good. We have done the full camp set up as we are booked for 6 nights. No 1 priority is to get Susans bike up and running. The bike rack man has indicated he will freight parts from Melbourne if required so that's good it's just a matter of if they are available. I took some more pictures this morning to id parts and actually had a ride to assess if there was any undetected damage. It appeared ok so fingers crossed. We will also be attending to items such as post cards and washing and other chores. Just because we are on holiday doesn't mean the mundane things of life vanish that's for sure. Anyway it's a nice balmy night with a few mossies around and we are getting closer to tropics! Mount Isa forecast tomorrow 36C with chance of a late storm and cooler Friday.
Huddle round your heaters southerners :-)
cheers Simon
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