Day 228 Yesterday we did some shopping in the morning. We went to the grocery store the first one we have come across since Atherton five days ago. The small towns have little IGAs in the local gas station with ridiculous prices. Yes even worse than the coast, it is possible. We followed this up with the day of not driving and chilling at Lake Moondarra just outside Mount Isa. We couldn't crash there as the park is monitored so we left and headed west for about an hour till the first rest area.
Today was a lot of driving. After getting fuel in Camooweal on the border, we left Queensland for the first time since week three of our OZ trip. We entered the Northern Territory on Barkly Highway and were greeted with a 130km/hr speed limit! Having to be fuel conscious as the fuel prices have been rising dramatically, (the fuel price has climbed to $1.98 per liter. In Cairns we were paying
$1.42, then $1.59 in Mt. Surprise, $1.69 in Normanton and $1.89 at Burke
and Wills Roadhouse), we kept driving our 95km/hr. There is nobody to hold up out there as we only seen maybe 30 cars down that 400 km stretch. It was even more outback bare then the drives before as we did a good two plus hours of nothing but yellow grass before trees started popping up again. There was no other town but Barkly Homestead, a roadhouse, till Tennant Creek.