Day 74 – 77 Mt Isa

We drove through the main street of Boulia, home of the Min Min Lights at about 9.30 a.m. Filled up with petrol (169.9 c/l), whilst Andrea grabbed a couple of coffees and drinks at the local Min Min café.
Took a few photos of the main street and headed off northwards towards Dajarra on the Mt. Isa road. The trip was an easy drive of just over 300 km’s, once again on a thin but neat strip of bitumen. All going well we should be at the Isa by about 1.30 pm.
Passed through Dajarra once the world’s largest railhead for cattle transportation before road trains became the main means of transporting these animals. It is now an Aboriginal community, which although appears quite neat, is apparently not the type of town in which one would want to stay too long.
It did however have a very colourful museum, but being keen to get to Mt. Isa, we pushed on.
We reached our destination by about 1.30 and after checking out the info. Centre decided to try our luck at one of the 4 Tourist Parks in town (Sunset C.P.) We managed to secure the last available site in the park.
Didn’t do too much in Mt. Isa. In fact the town didn’t seem to have too many redeeming features about it at all, unless of course you like places where many types of pollutants are spewed into the air by local industry for all the residents to inhale!!!
It apparently hadn’t rained for 12 months either, so the whole town seem to be covered in a layer of dust and the river (The Leichhardt), which flows through the town was dry.
Liv and Rube managed to make friends with a couple of girls their age who were staying in the caravan park, which was good for them to finally have some non adult company to share.
We decided to use our stay here as a time to restock before we headed off into the wilds of North West Qld, Boodjamulla (Lawn Hill) N.P. and the Savannah Way.
We were going to be off road for about 7 days and would need to be stocked with enough food to last this time, as we didn’t know what kinds of supplies would be available along the way.
After a huge shop for groceries on the Saturday we carefully loaded the car and trailer. Just about every available space was taken up with food and or equipment!!!!
Sunday morning we packed up the camper and headed up the road towards Camooweal along the Barkly Highway.