The road to Mt Isa is wonderfully scenic, historic and interesting. We are back in the land of stony hills, mountains and gorges. Just out of Cloncurry beside a river (dry) is an 1861 campsite of the Burke & Wills Expedition.

About halfway along is the ex-mining town of Mary Kathleen . We thought this would be a photo opportunity but all the buildings have been entirely removed leaving only streets, concrete slabs and garden remnants. The place is now used by the caravan community for a very comfortable campsite. Our guess is that there were possibly 150 buildings at it's peak. We will return to explore the old mine site which has now formed a crater lake some 7klm from the camp.

We moved onto Mt Isa, but not to stay. We did a shop there, filled a gas bottle, filled the fridge and off to Dajarra, 160klm south!