Cloncurry

The morning we left Winton the reason for the cattle activity became apparent.
Around 07.30 a very large cattle train arrived to collect all of the cattle that had been trucked in and mustered into the local yards in the last couple of days.
I did hear of a woman in the caravan park who was complaining of  "the dreadful noise of the cattle and the stockmen last night" - clearly she needs to take her next holiday somewhere other than in the country... what a sook.

Approaching Cloncurry from Winton is interesting.  The country starts to close in from  the wide open plains country to more heavily wooded country with quite a lot of interesting rock formations .

Cloncurry was not really as I remembered. We called in here on the way to the gulf 11 years ago and at that time we stopped for a cup of coffee in quite a nice little place in the main shopping area. Not this time.

I don't know what has happened with the barista training in  western Queensland, it's absolutely impossibe (so far) to get a drinkable cup of coffee.The prices are like Sydney, the espresso machines carry  the same brand names and are still impressive looking and nice and shiny, but the so-called coffee tastes like warm milk!! I've switched to tea - hard to muck that up.

By the way, I need some help.
Any blog I have ever read has archives of (naturally) previous posts including the pictures relevant to those posts.  This blog won't allow me to do that, although it's possibly because I haven't read the instructions properly, so if you know what I'm doing incorrectly you could email me on tj991@bigpond.com

Tonight we arrived in Mount Isa so I'll have some more to add tomorrow.