Day 40

Day 40 Sunday 27th May

Believe it of not, we actually slept in a bit this morning! Cloudy day 22-31 Deg. And Humid.
Today we start to head back in a southerly direction! Which sounds like we are heading home, but once we reach Three ways we turn Left and head towards Mt Isa.

Leaving Rick And Tracey was hard as they have been great travel companions. Also having their kids was good as it helped us not to miss our G/kids to much!!!
We reached Mataranka about 1 hour later and as usual had some breakfast there. Our favourite Brother ‘s were already out sitting under the trees. What do they do all day??
We then called into the Daly Waters pub, what an experience this place is, if you have been there you know exactly what I mean! So much nostalgia here you can smell it!! Happy hour here consists of a coin toss! You toss the coin, If you get it right your beer is free if you get it wrong you still only pay the normal price! One guy I spoke to said that he tossed quite a few times but never won any of them(dodgy coin???)

Pressing on we ran into a swarm of locust’s that went for about 100 metres then just stopped? Mad ea bit of a mess on the windscreen, nothing that can’t be cleaned!!

This turned into a long day as we were wanted to get to three ways tonight. So after 655klm’s of towing the van we finally reached Three Ways. We thought it would be just a park behind the roadhouse but it is very nice Plenty of water. And green grass. They actually pump it from 12 kilometres away put it through a Flocking system to purify it. Taste alright. The best part we were still in time for happy hour! How about that!!
Our next door neighbour comes from Boronia, Charles is his name travelling on his own to Darwin, where his wife is flying up to meet him(Brenda reckons that’s a good way to do it) Had a great chat with him. Its amazing what info you can get from people:- he’s a retired architect , his wife is a Chef, he’s dog hates black people!! He owns a boat that’s moored at Sandringham Y.C. Its name I think was Red William. Loves a glass of wine and more that I can’t remember.
Anyhow had dinner did my bit of typing cant get it on the Webb page as we have no hotspot here!! I have got about 5 days worth to go on!!
For those interested ULP $1.52 LPG 89.5 cents.
That’s all for this one got to get to bed another big Klm day tomorrow.