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Travelling from Mount Isa to Darwin five-week holiday. Starting out in June 2021.

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In 2022 we had a 2 Month Holiday, going from Mount Isa -Tennant Creek-Gumtree- Alice Springs-Kulgera-Marla- Coober Pedy-Woomera-Pimba- Port Augustra-Port Lincoln- Coffin Bay- Williamstown – Wirrabarra Markets- Barossa Area- Broken Hill- Cobar- Lighting Ridge- Dalby- Brisbane- Gold Coast-Mount Cotton-Roma- Emerald- Barcolene-Longreach- Winton-Cloncurry- Mount Isa.

Travelling in the cooler months of the year. June. Temperature was around 10 in the mornings then 20, the days were good. We left Mount Isa at 9am in the morning.

Our first stop was Camooweal, here we bought bacon and egg burgers, very nice. Fuel was $2.59. (It was the most expensive fuel we seen our whole trip.

Next, we stop at Barkly Homestead to give the dogs a walk. Did not see the price of fuel there.

At 3-20pm we stop for the night, free camping at Frewena camp area.

We were 505km from home.

At the campgrounds at Frewena it was beautiful and green., purple flowers everywhere. There was a water hole in the distance.

Here we picked up Jasper. All different colors

Take your Rubbish with you.

At the campgrounds some people do not care about others. They cannot understand to take their own rubbish with them, there are bins, but you do not leave food rubbish in them for the animals to eat out of, the mess they make is unbelievable. All the bins here were overflowing with rubbish, and people were still leaving rubbish.

Look after our wildlife.

Next Stop on day 2 of our holiday was Tennant Creek. This is our first fill up after leaving Mount Isa.

Fuel here was $246.76, our car took 102.86lts.

We were told not to stay in Tennant Creek. next free camp was Taylor Creek 181km away from Tennant Creek, going south.

Here it was very cold during the night, only 6c in the night/morning. Here we learnt about Deisel heater for caravans.

First time we have heard of them.

Here at Taylors Creek, it was cold and there was a cattle yard there, the cattle were very noisy

Next stop was fuel as we were, turning of and going to Gemtree, for a week fossicking.

Here fuel was $2.99 lt. We knew from last visit here, fuel was expensive.

Gemtree Caravan Park. All we wanted was electric so we could turn the heater on.

When fossicking, every state has their own rules. It is a real pain. N.T. fossicking is free., only in areas they have set aside for fossicking.

Lookout for more on our holiday from Mount Isa -Top to the bottom of Australia. Inland Australia.

Happy Holidays

Happy Fossicking.

Have yourself a great day.

Wendy

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Northern Territory. Holiday.

Saturday  we planed to, only  travel a small distance up towards Darwin, take our time but,  when we got to Elliot, it did not look like a good place to stay.

The  caravan park that looked empty had a 6ft fence around it,  with barb wire on top of it.

We traveled to the next service station which was Dunmarra.

Yes it was a dog friendly park.

Green grass was hard to find, where we stayed. Dust and dead grass every where.

One of my dogs is black and white. Gave up trying to keep him clean. He loved the bull dust.

Because we had dogs we were not allowed to go to a lot of places. Can not take them to National Parks,

do not know why, they are animals, we  seen lots of people behave really bad, rubbish everywhere.

My dogs are better behave then a lot of kids,  they make less noise, they are my babies. I love my dogs.

Saturday night  we spent at  Dunmarra.

Here there is a service station and caravan park. Yes they were watering what grass they had.

Our caravan holiday in the Northern Territory making our way up to Darwin.

Sunday  Mataranka was going to be our next stop, we turned of the highway  and went into  Daly Waters to have a look.

There was so many Caravan, campers and people every where, we drove up to the end of the street and turned around.

Here we seen a pig and bufflo. in a fence off area, sign said they were best of friends.

There was a pub and caravan park and other places to stay. People we talk to on the road, said they had a nice meal at the pub, and enjoyed seeing everything. Again we had dogs, so this was of limits again.

We Travel to Mataranka, Just before the town there is a sign to go to Mataranka Homestead.

First we had a look at the town, bought a pie for lunch, it was a very expensive pie.

After lunch we went to the Mataranka Homestead to camp, we booked in for 3 days.

Because we had dogs, we  where in a area near the front gate, no grass dirt every where.

I was entertained, watching how many people were coming in the gate, to have a bath in the springs.

Free bath.

No way I was going to the springs, my husband kept saying it is running warm water.

He went in 2 times, not me.

After leaving Mataranka Homestead, next stop was Darwin. we drove through Kathrine, I wanted to go shopping,

I love camping out, love the open country, but I wanted to put the dogs into doggie day care, and go shopping, and out for lunch.

Darwin.

Caravan van park Darwin, we booked into a discovery park , my husband booked in for 5 days. There was a doggy day care near by.