Cloncurry Qld
Out of van park, turn right, drive west: 247 km to Julia Creek. Few bouts of road works at the 70km mark. OK it was one lollipop zone and 5 traffic light zones over 12km, but who’s counting. But hey, as John Williamson says, ‘we’re further out, in Julia Creek’ Now this is a nice little town, has a nice friendly feel to its one street and almost no shops, not even a proper cafe, which closed 3 years ago. We went into the info centre, which is perhaps the nicest one we've seen, mainly to cop a look at the endangered Dunnart, of which only 11 exist. They were thought to be extinct until rediscovered here at Julia Creek in 1991. They have a special display area and enclosure behind glass (it’s only tiny, like a mouse) but we saw nothing. It was suggested that it had just had a bellyful of flies and had scurried into its hideaway to sleep it off. We forwent the coffee and continued on the 140km to Cloncurry, or as one truckie to another called it, the curry. Now i’m pretty sure i’v...