Accross the border and into NT

Up early again this time we have bacon & eggs, on the BBQ which means we are not on the road until 7:30am. We have done 460k, 400k & today is nearly 400 again. We drive through Mt Isa which looks mostly like any other mining town and pushed on to Camooweal, which is just inside the QLD border. We stop for a beer it is not even 11:00am yet but its already hot and we are being slowed down by a near Northerly head wind. We make it to the border and we have left QLD, Goodbye for now we will miss you. QLD has been great and we have both fallen in love with it especially Innisfail.
Onward and there is a Highway Patrol car at the border where the limit drops from 130 to 100 at Avon Downs which is just a Police Station inside the border and then back up to 130km. It must of cost the NT government a fortune to put up all these signs.
Today’s rest stop is Suadan Bore, the first one we are staying at that doesn’t have toilets. It is hot and windy so we try to sit in the van with all the windows open. After a lunchtime play we decide it is to hot and out goes the Geny and on goes the Air Con. The bloody thing stall every time I put the Air Con on, oh no what could it be, its OK just needs petrol.
It will take us 6 days at this rate and it will be 35°+ every day. So if the wind stops at dusk we will drive at night tonight. At least try to get another 120k in. Once it hits dusk we are on the road again and drive through sunset and on in the hope we don’t get to see some of those bloody big Roo’s first hand. It’s all good and we end up driving further than we hoped. All the way to 41 Mile Bore only 100 odd Km from Tenant Creek. It doesn’t really cool down but we have a 2 minute wind storm with 6 drops of really big rain and then it passes and it’s hot again.
As you all know in the bush there are plenty of Grids but today we drove over 2 painted on grids. Yes that’s correct not an actual grid but ones painted on the road. That really just explains why humans eat the cows and not the other way around.