As you may know, the maximum temperature recorded in Queensland today was 41 degrees at Julia Creek. Well guess what. We are now at Julia Creek camped at a delightful spot beside a waterhole just outside the town.
Fortunately, we didn't get
here until 6:30 just as the sun was setting and the temperature had
dropped to 36 degrees. We are now enjoying a delightful cool breeze
but the water from the van's tanks remains as hot as ever.
We spent the day in an air
conditioned environment in that we drove for two hours from Camooweal
to Mt. Isa this morning and then spent the next four hours in the
cool air conditioned atmosphere of the Isa Experience being the Mt. Isa
tourism centre where we saw the very interesting displays and I did
an underground mine tour, not in the real mine but in a very
sophisticated recreation 60 feet below the ground at the tourism
centre. Unfortunately photography was not allowed so I don't have any
photos to record the story.
We then spent another
couple of hours in the car to get here.
Tomorrow we head to
Porcupine Gorge National Park via Hughenden. I am very confident that
we won't have phone connection there so we may disappear for a couple
of nights.
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