We left Mt Isa today, starting our travels with Andrew & Sue Christie. We have done many trips with Andrew & Sue over the years and despite numerous times thinking this adventure would not eventuate, it has and we have the next few months travelling together thru Queensland and New South Wales.

Sunday we went out to Lake Moondarra, about 17 k’s north of Mt Isa. I can remember Lake Moondarra from my school trip back in 1974, it was the first place I had swam at that was not a swimming pool. A lot has changed since then and its a good picnic area for the populace of Mt Isa and the peacocks too.

Today we travelled to Burke & Wills Roadhouse, via Cloncurry. It’s a stop about half between Cloncurry and Normanton, which is about 200 k’s from both towns. A little bit of a glitch with the Cruiser having a blocked fuel filter. It seems I’d picked up a bad load of fuel at Mt Isa, fortunately I had a spare filter but I hadn’t changed one over before, leaving it to the experts. Toyota service talked me thru the process and fortunately I managed to change it without any problems and we got back on the road again and headed off to our overnight stop.