June 2014

On a Mission

After leaving Ingham we searched for the sugar loading pier that we had heard about. Out to Halifax and Lucinda (just  north of Ingham)  

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Slowly upwardly mobile

Since leaving Townsville Thursday (it’s now Monday) we’ve travelled northward by about 150km. Actual distance covered has been a bit more as we zagged inland and

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Fly Buys, Byes, Boys

All of them. I’m sitting to write this some 10 days or more after the event. Well, 10 days since we hit Townsville. We actually

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Working our passage

iOM bought Civic Guides earlier this year. For those of you unfamiliar, Civic Guides looks like this….               and

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Woop Woop On

Upon departing Woop Woop the road nearly got better – still single lane blacktop but less bouncy jouncy, almost cruisin’. 85 was a reasonable speed but

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Aye Karumba!

Cos there’s been relatively little to see or hold our attention in many of the little outback places we’ve been so far we seem to

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Min Min Mt Isa

Winton to the Hilton Hotel for a beer. The Hiltons standards have been maintained but the beer at the Middleton Hotel opposite was certainly colder….

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Winton afar

We’ve been to Winton many times but never travelled this far to get there. Whoops! different Winton and not car race track to be seen.

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