Driving From Mount Isa Qld to the Northern Territory - By: Winston Cash

Last night, we drove 75klms from Mt Isa and parked the night time in a rest stop. We were rewarded which includes a bonus of a striking sky. Not only trillions of bright twinkling stars, but an awesome show of flash lightening. Overhead, an unusual dark fog up floated, which we suspected is a plague of locusts. The lightening was low on the horizon, so it was not coming from our cloud. But people did notice several locusts losing in.

We have been traveling Australia and house sitting randomly for a few months, but are still getting the gliches sorted with our bus and caravan. Fortunately, my hubby, Larry, has the capacity to fix anything that needs fixing or building - consequently a small table in the front to set my laptop on, and to fasten a fan into it to cool me down. He also fit 12 volt accessory plugs, which run to the battery in the tour bus, to allow the fridge, fan and my laptop to operate.

This he did after refitting this bus and caravan, placing an exhaust fan inside bus roof to acquire the hot air, lining most of the interior, making the coach and van dust evidence etc.

We fit in with a house-sitting site and can choose any area. We have house-sat in Townsville and Mount Isa and are heading to Alice Springs NT to get a two month house stay. How good is that? And no rent to be charged!

We have just stopped at Camooweal to get a cold drink at the hotel. We would stay for lunch but it surely is only 11am together with lunch isn't on until 12. 30pm. Since we have a 12 volt fridge to maintain cold, we had better keep going.

I mouse click away with my camera and find some great shots on the few brolgas in the wet paddocks in addition to a wedge tailed eagle that is swooping on roadkill. Hold on, the 12 volt power just cut out. Wow well, Larry will have to go back to the drawing board.

Finally found the place to stop but right away attacked by hordes involving flies. Or is that a cluster? Group? Gathering? Myriad? Swarm? Well, it is my story so i will call them a mob of flies. You have to eat with your butt end and eyes closed or one goes down with the hoagie while another bites you in the eye.

We are on the highway again, and oh! do you find it hot! By the way, Larry did fix that wiring, which had a negative connection. Just as well precisely as it could cost us a fortune to have all that work done. However, we would need to find an available tradesperson first.

After convinced that the world was about to catch fire with the following terrible heat, we have found a cool spot under shady trees. Whoops! The following comes a threatening thunder storm, so we will need to take the van in the open.

Oh! At last. We have just had an exceptionally refreshing shower in that bus. The water from our tanks is actually boiling from the road heat, so had to allow it to needlessly cool in the lightweight shower container. After welcome rain, the hot conditions are cooling, so we go for a walk along a bush track.

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