With no-one else around it didn’t seem to matter what time we checked out this morning but with the sun baring down on us it made logical sense to get moving as quick as we could. We didn’t get much sleep throughout the night – if the heat wasn’t enough to contend with it seemed that a bug landed on us every twenty seconds or so. Still, we weren’t prepared to stay another night to test whether we could improve on it.

The journey was fairly uneventful, just the way we like it. We stopped again at Normanton to fill up on diesel and then headed towards Burke & Wills Roadhouse, a further 200km south where we stopped purely for refreshments. Then it was on again to Cloncurry where we joined the A2 for our westward journey.

We even took the time to enjoy some lunch at Cloncurry and then started west to Mt Isa. When we arrived there it was near 4pm so we dashed through and grabbed some groceries, restocked on fuel and then headed out to the local swimming hole, Lake Moondara. We considered that if it wasn’t too popular we would stop overnight and enjoy a swim.

Alas, the lake was within a park where the gates were closed every night at 10pm and the edge of the lake was covered in blue-green algae – hardly desirable for swimming. Regardless, Jordan and I ventured out on the tubes past the algae and took advantage of the cool, refreshing water.

We decided to stay for dinner, enjoying the setting sun and the cooler weather that it brought. Then, with the sun fully set we drove another 50km west to an overnight rest stop and joined a few other campers enjoying the solitude.

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