Quick trip from Camooweal to Mt Isa, where we caught up with Sue and Andrew Christie. This has been in the planning for nearly 12 months and many times we both thought it would not happen. Despite some close calls we were both able to get across the borders into QLD to meet here. Looks like we’ll be in QLD for a couple of months at least, as we head north to Karumba, then east to Cooktown, before following the coast south the NSW border. What happens after that will be based on the COVID situation at the time. Unfortunately the Melbourne crew won’t be joking us in Cairns, so it will be the Christie/Walton trip from now on.

Mt Isa is a mining town, there is not much here from a tourists perspective. This weekend was the big Mt Isa Mines Rodeo but now its a virtual Rodeo (whatever that is) because of COVID. So one of the big events in Mt Isa calendar is basically cancelled and we have missed out again, very disappointing as I was keen to see my first Rodeo.

We had a quick drive around town, visited the tourism centre and the lookout in town and that’s about it. Probably go out to Lake Moondarra on Sunday for a picnic and that’s about it for Mt Isa. It was a rest period before we head off to Karumba, as we’ve had a number of single stops in the last week. Burke & Wills roadhouse is next stop before we get into Karumba on Tuesday.