DRAFT!!!!!
We went through Mt Isa, which was another mining town.
Once we refulled and got supplies we decided it wasnt a town for us, but we did see Katters official office..it explains a lot.
Tom Price was much more civilised, professional and nice.
As we werent going to stay at Mt Isa we decided to move on via the developmental road which turned off at Cloncurry.
Once we got on the road it was a really good road but you could tell it wass another increadibly isolated place.
We drove abot 400km untill we got to Burke & Wills, which is a ‘ one horse town’… one roadhouse and one rodeo stadium. We were there a couple of days before the rodeo was on, this town is literally in the midlle of nowhere, however there were trucks and cowboys flowing in by the dozen.
At the pub/caravan park/hotel/post office/bottleshop etc, we saw young men in their early 20s drinking XXXX and trying to impress the young ladies. At the same time we saw the young ladies (20+) trying to seduce their farmer, or more probably a Station owner. This was like a Farmer wants a wife/husband on Meth!.
We could not stay and had to move on, we stayed at the side of the road about 80km north of B&W.
Lovely free camp called ‘Bang Bang’. Some fantastic Street Art, I think Banksy might have driven through here.
Water in the site tank was green like from the ‘Simpsons’ lake