Day 155: Heading to Janice's

We packed up early so we could get on the road. We stopped at Morven to have a look around town, we even saw some emus.

We then kept going to get to Mitchell. When we eventually got there we headed to mums 3rd cousin in law's house. She wasn't there so we went to the free camp 2km out of town and got set up. Mum went back to her cousins place to see if she was there but came back with no luck. The people across from us had a small maltese cross something and Rosie and the dog, Chloe, had a play.

 We eventually had dinner and went to bed.

Written by Sean Campbell

Day 154: Seeing Charleville

We started off the day by going to the astrnomy centre out of town.

We then went to have a look around town.

We went to the park to hace a break. I took Rosie over to the playground to have some fun.
We went back to the van park and dad and I got ready to go to the astronomy centre to go to the observetory to have a look through some telescopes. We had a look at the moon and the Sea of Tranquility on the moon. After we'd finished we went back to the van to get some sleep.

Written Sean Campbell

Day 153: Reaching Charleville

I was woken up by mum roughly that morning and she was saying that we had to get out of the camp because all the rain from the night before had bogged us in the dirt. We hurridly hooked up and got out of there. we drove to Tambo and we decided to have lunch there. We then made it to Augathella to have a look at the giant meat ant.

We then went to Charleville to stay the night. We stayed 8km out of town on a farm stay and it was great. We had dinner early again and then went to bed.

Written by Sean Campbell

Day 152: On the Road Again

We started off the morning by going to the LSODE (Longreach School of Distant Education) and having a look.

After our tour we went to take a photo of the Tropic of Capricorn. I know we saw it I Alice Springs but apparantly it goes all the way through.

We then got back on the road again and eventually stopped at Barcaldine to take some photos. The main attraction at Barcaldine was a replica of the Tree of Knowledge, the real tree was poisened and didn't survive.

We then kept going until we reached a town called Blackall and we stayed at a place right on the edge of town.

We had dinner early and went to bed all rugged up because it was so cold. Guess what happened in the middle of the night, we felt our first drop of rain.

Written by Sean Campbell

Day 151: Exploring Longreach

 The free camp spot we stayed at was actually only 4km out of town, so we didn't have far to travel to go see the Stockmans Hall of Fame. I wasn't intrested in doing it but I was draged along. We had a quick look aroundbefore we went out to see the outback show. They started off with a man riding around on a horse then he called three people out to do a quiz (one of those three was dad).
After the quiz he brought out a horse that had apparantly been to a party and had been toped up on funny stuff. He was going to make a lady ride him but he was just mucking around.
He then brought out a camel to show off (at lest he hadn't gone to the party).
After that we finished off looking at the Hall of Fame then went back to have lunch. After lunch dad and I went to the Powerhouse Mueseum to have a look.

The mueseum had loads of old stuff and early day equipment. We then went back to the van park to have a swim in the really cold pool. It was then time to go to scouts. In spite of not wanting to go I had a really fun time.

They even had a mueseum to help celebrate their hundredth year of scouts (that may be a good idea for our scout group). We then headed back to the van for a good nights rest.

Written by Sean Campbell

Day 150: Exploring Dinosaurs

We went to take photos around town and we also went to the Musical Fence.
We then left Winton and went to the Age of Dinosaurs a couple of kilometres out of town.
We payed to go do the tour and went to wait. When the tour guide came out we started the tour. We looked at some of the fossils they'd found around the area.

We left there so we could get to Longreach. When we arrived we got set up at the free camp and made dinner. We finished dinner and went to bed.

Written by Sean Campbell

Day 149: Leaving the Curry

We left Cloncurry early that morning and we stopped at a place called McKinlay and it had the Walkabout Creek from the famous Aussie movie Crocodile Dundee.

After that we kept going to try to get to Winton. We also stopped at the Blue Heeler Hotel to have a look.
After we finished there we got back on the road to Winton. When we arrived we went for a look around town. We went to the Walzing Matilda Centre and we also found the perfect free camp spot. We had dinner around 8:00pm and hen went to bed.

Written by Sean Campbell

Day 148: Exploring the Curry

We left to the info centre to get some sought of briefing on where eveything is. There we met up with some people from the van park and we spoke with them for 5mins before going up to the lookout to have a look at the view. We walked back down and we went to have a walk down main street before going to the QUANTAS hanger and we had a look. Mum and dad dropped me off at the caravan park so they could finish off looking at Cloncurry. When they got back we had dinner then went to bed.

Written by Sean Campbell

Day 147: Going to the Curry

We left the caravan park early so we could get to Cloncurry. We got to Clocurry around about lunchish and we had lunch.

Dad and I went over to the pool to have a swim. I had a ride on my scooter and we went to met some of the local animals.

We went to have dinner and we then stayed up to watch a movie before going to sleep.

Written by Sean Campbell

Day 146: Exploring Mount Isa

We went to the Outack at Isa place that day and had a look around.

We payed to go into the fossil centre and mueseum. We went to the fossil centre first and we saw some really cool stuff.

We then went to the mueseum to have a look at all he stuff.

We then left and went back to the van to drop off dad and then mum and I went shopping. We came back 3hrs later and had dinner then went to bed.

Written by Sean Campbell