Heading West.

Today we are heading west on our way to Darwin. It is 2,500k across bloody hot country. We pack up & fuel up and we are off. It’s only a short 130k to Charters Towers. We press on hoping to clock up as many k’s a day as possible. It is hot so we are trying to stop by 1.00pm each day. We make it all the way to Marathon Rest Stop which is 60k west of Hughenden. It’s just a toilet and a shelter on the side of the road. It is hot so we try to use the shelter roof as a bit of shade. The drive has been OK and not to many hills.


Near dark it gets cool and I mean less than 15° and I even have to put a shirt on. It feels nice and at least in the Outback it gets cool at night. A few Road trains pull in during the night as well as a few other travellers.

We are up early and on the road by 7:00am. There is no shortage of Road Kill along here with lots of Pigs & huge Roo’s. We push on through the heat and it sure is getting bloody hot. A spray bottle is our Air Con and its works well, it’s a shame it does not last longer. On and on we go, hot as well and we get to Fountain Springs rest stop 60k short of Mount Isa. Just how hot is it? well we got the Geny running and the Air Con on but anywhere away from it is hot. There are thousands of what seem to be huge moth’s on the road and at dusk they fly from everywhere. It cools down but not as much as last night. We watch Speed Racer and relax out in the stars.