Adventure Tours... dunno if they sang "Waltzing Mathilda " last night. Their generator for the flood light simply was way too loud. That is adventure!!!

We´re in near distance to Alice on "our" Rest-Area with free view on a Britz .
It´s simply plain awful here, it´s buzzing & fizzling - how many Blowies in average go on one human being? They simply suck!!! Relaxed reading or writing is impossible! Sky is cloudy, but it´s warm

Alice Springs ... hot showers - for free even! - sadly still misused. Lunch at KFC . Yummy and they have AirCon! To use their toilets you have to get a numerical code from the counter - chaos reigns.

Running errands and then a regular vegetarian von PIZZA HUT , then bak to the Road Side Stop. & wow, it´s cooling down! With T-Shirt, blouse, 2 Fleece-pullovers & a wind-jacket it was tolerably ok. Cold nights here!
You think so? In the morning it was even colder & it didn´t get any warmer! ice-cold wind. Actually we wanted to head south, but now we head direction Mt Isa. How can it get so quickly so darn cold?! 20 °C! Good thing: No Mossies - the Blowies on the other hand don´t mind the temps. Buzzing as ever.

Last night some campers came over and offered "their" BBQ to us, which we loved to accept. Nice guys, telling us the night before they sat outside in T-Shirts... I thought it was ... bearable - in T-Shirt, blouse & fleece-pullover.
This morning it was freezing cold again. We went via Plenty Hwy through pampas til Urandangi Hotel/Pub in QLD (put the clocks forward some 1/2 h).

In the middle of nowhere there is this hotel. an a bitumen "road". Loud speakers outside drone in fullest loudness "I wanna have sex at the beach", what blatant contrast. To ask inside for fuel was kinda difficult in that noise as well.
We left the tiny bit of bitumen road direction Mt Isa , now only the rumbling and the wind are there. The sand partially blows kinda creepily over the road, solitude and sometimes it´s difficult to find the "road" at all.

We found a neat little place beside the road for tonight. Dark-red soil and some smaller trees even. The wind is still blowing ugly & cold.

Queensland - even Coles & Woolworths close down on Sundays, what chagrin. At the Touri-Info - with showers! cold for free, $2 warm ones - I cheerfully gave those two bucks away, I tell ya! Well, yips, getting old here... - here the meteorological data were presented - recovery not in sight. To the south they even have ground frost in the mornings! Es ist kalt! But the scenery is beautiful!
After the shower we went to - tadaaa - PIZZA HUT & to munch the slice of life away we went up to the City Lookout. Inconsolably, this is how it feels a lot like. So we go on. It´s getting warmer and whooosh, they´re back again, the darn Blowies.
We tried the first XXXX of this journey, hmmm, yum!

This morning back to Mt Isa , running errands, having a shower - oh, no! - I was so sure having two bucks, but hadn´t! - So in this cold weather I took a cold shower again, numb fingers included !
Breakfast at McD & and on the way to Cloncurry , shortly before turn off direction Julius - rangy region. Arriving at the top & you think you´re in german woods looking down on the dam of the Oker -dI didn´t come here for thisn!!!
Next we headed direction Kajabbi, then to Burke Development Rd & from where on it´s partially sealed, how nice. Partially even sealed in both directions, but you meet Road Trains on the one way parts & especially oversized Roadtrains meet you on one way & aslope ... Now we´ve passed Burke & Wills International Airport in the pampas. A neat little place, sadly without fire-wood. The wind is nearly getting warm - it can get only better now! On the other hand... one good thing about the cold weather is: NO Mossies!