Views from the Road
There are very long stretches of very little in the outback, here are some pictures as we traveled along the roads that cris-cross the area.
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Undara - Normanton
Some of the road was one lane tar strip
One of the biggest dry rivers we crossed
Roo prints
Our riverside camp
Typical 2 lane road
Near Normanton we parallel the railway
Scrub after a fire
Normanton - Cloncurry
Termite hills are a feature of outback scenery
Burke and Wills Roadhouse, the only services for hundreds of km
Road train
Miles of flat land...
are broken by occasional outcrops
Typical flinty red soil
Not very like Lanark Scotland
Cloncurry - Mt Isa
Another dry river bed
Border between traditional lands of two Aboriginal tribes
Mary Katherine, a prefab town built to service a Uranium mine in the 1950s...
the entire town was auctioned off in 1984 when the mine closed...
now only the concrete slabs remain
Sunset at our roadside camp
Mt Isa - Camooweal
The first cloud we have seen in 3 days in the outback
© Tim Cooke 2008
