Well we have been home now for a week or so . Still trying to get the dust out of the van .
We have started getting things happening for next year . Planning to go away in March for
about six months . Will go south through NSW , Victoria and then across the Nullabor to W.A .
Up the west coast to Darwin then across to our favourite fishing hole at Batten Point . We met a couple on the way home who are looking for a long term house sit next year . Should work out
well . We are upgrading the ute to an Iveco truck , then we can carry much more junk . So for those who followed my ramblings , cheers til next year .

                                         Tablelands Hwy free camp at old windmill

                                          Old township Mary Kathleen

                                           Beautiful artscape in Augathella

                             maybe I have at last been able to download some photos of our journey
                             homewards

2pm Tues
Here we are at the old township of Mary Kathleen, came in for lunch and decided to stay the night . The town was abandoned in1984 after the uranium mine closed .All that is left now are a few bitumen streets and all the concrete slabs from the buildings . No facilities at all , but a fantastic free camp , lots of shade under leafy gums and plenty flat sites , can just hear the road noise. We left Batten Point 9am Monday, drove 28ks turned left , then drove 138ks to Cape Crawford turned left , then drove 373ks to Barkly Homestead of which 125ks was one property
turned left , then drove 278ks to Camooweal . Then today 189ks to Mt Isa , turned left , then drove 60ks to Mary Kathleen turned left into old township . Tomorrow after 75ks we get to use the right indicator . So that was 1167ks all left turns .

Holy Dooly what a change in the weather .We have had down to about 7c overnight since we have been here ,nothing over about 10 c , then bingo last night 19 c and 37c today with high humidity. So water temp has shot up and fish are on the chew . Beverley got a 75 cm barra yesterday on her new birthday fishing rod and another one this morning . I got two this morning as well . So freezer in the van fridge is chockers with barra filets plus a few other ones . So that's the end of fishing as our 12volt freezer stopped working when we got here , so we will probably wander home early next week . Dreading the packing up

still doing it tough

Still haven't increased the fish catch . Has been very windy the last couple
of days  , gusts up to 30 knots which blows a bit of dust around . Looks like the wind might be around for a couple more days . One good thing is that we have put up the aerial for the phone finally
and have good 4G reception and able to hot spot the laptop so I can play on the internet . Going
to try to add some photos again .

                               

  62cm barra , 2x55cm queenfish , 1x 42cm mangrove jack

Well not  much excitement since the last blog , though we have managed to get some fish at last but not firing up yet as in previous years,  water still a bit cool only 22c needs to be about 24-25c to get the barra firing ,anyway still having a great lazy time. Having no end of trouble trying to add photos but just cant get it to download

Been out a couple of times in the tinnie for no results Have caught nice fish at the camp . Very windy today and hot , so we will just have to tough it out