Overnight at Avon Downs

I've been really surprised at the number of overseas readers of this blog. Why people from overseas would be interested in the miscellaneous ramblings of a 68 year old grey nomad is a puzzle to me.

We left Mount Isa mid morning (we always try to leave at 9 but it rarely happens). There's always plenty of preparation before we hit the road.
Heading firstly to Camooweal we headed out through the scrubby countryside areas that slowly made way to open plains. The country looks fabulous with mile upon mile of grassland and still plenty of water in dams, creeks and waterholes. Plenty of cattle and, of course, quite a few triple roadtrains carrying general freight as well as cattle.

We stopped at Camooweal for lunch and to top up with diesel before the trip across the Barkly Tablelands. Bit of a surprise here, diesel was $1.90 a litre, dearest so far this trip. The next available fuel is not until Barkly Homestead some 260km away and I reckon its always good to keep the tanks full just in case.

Have a look at some of the pics for the open plains area.

About 70 km west of Camooweal we crossed the Stuart River, right near a nice free camp so we stopped there for the night. Explored the river and took a few pics of the plentiful water birds, quite a nice spot. Got a little cool after sunset, glad we had collected some wood for a fire.

After a very restful overnight stop it was off  across the Northern Territory border and on to Barkly Homestead where our original intention was to stay but seeing I was in the groove, we kept driving though to Tennant Creek.
Hope you enjoy the pics.