The Road Just Keeps Going on and on and on.........

The Road the just keeps going.....

 

We left Eulo, after my early morning training session at the Lizard Track ready for as far as we could get.  With the dirt roads all closed off we have to stick to the black tar for a while until we get to Broken Hill and go from there.  We did cross the Queensland/New South Wales Border. :)

Passing the time waving to cars...some people did wave too :)

So what do you do when you are sitting, in a car to pass the time????

Man, I was so bored at one stage I started waving to all the cars, and then played eye spy, making up sentences with the three letters on the rego plates.  Phoenix wasn't much fun he just slept.  Some 355km later we arrived at a bush camp just outside of Burke.  So I guess you could say we really were at "The back of Burke."  ......

Yahoo crossing the border from Qld to NSW

In Outback NSW....

Phoenix and I taking a break after a long drive....

Wide open spaces...

When you get off the beaten track and not another sole around, it is amazing.  There is nothing like travelling the wide open spaces and not seeing any other person around.  Granted alot of wild life but no people.  Alot of cows on the stations as you pass by.  Plus an odd cousin or two, but they seem to have fur and I only have plastic so not too sure on how that works...but I'm told they are a relative too.

A great day on the road but a long one of 619km's.......

Coming up to more cows....

Still not sure about all those cows trying to hide...

Andy Roo's Fact Finds:  Australia's largest Station is Anna Creek in South Australia.  It is roughly 34,000 squared km's, 6 million acres.  That is bigger than the country Isreal.  You could certainly get lost there....

We are off....7,000km to go...

The car was all packed, and only thing left for me was to be put in the car.  I've got pretty flexible limbs and don't take up much space, so I'm a compact traveller.  Here is me already to go...

Leaving sunny Cairns

Tucked in Safe and Sound

So where to first?  Well I had front row seat and got a little excited as we left Cairns, and this time wasn't travelling in a cardboard box to a new destination.  We headed south and for our first night camped at Reid River just before Charters Towers in QLD 395km from home.

Now I don't mind sharing when the full moon came up and the cows started mooing through the night I was a little scared but I wasn't alone, Phoenix (the dog and new brother was at my side) together with the rest of the family...so I soon got to sleep and got ready for a new day....