Day 9,10,11 Mt Isa - Wanorah Bore - Devil's Marbles - Elliott

Hi

We have been out of service for past few days so here is the update.

Left Mount Isa (late start 11am) enjoyed a lovely swim. Arrived at the Northern Territory Border at 2pm of course we stopped for pics. This road is known as The Overlanders Way. You can see the horizon it seems to go for ever. Very green, I am sure this is unusual. We spent the night at a Free Stay - Wanorah Bore, very nice. There was a pretty Sunset and Trice had me up early for the Sunrise.

Off early and headed for Barkly Homestead we had a look around here, lots of Eagles. We were parked behind each other and along came this Road Train and dewharfed our cars and vans. Barkley's is used as a change over from Darwin. We went into Three Ways to see what that was like, just truck stop. Next stop Tennant Creek, decided we would not stop here but we ended up having lunch in a back street as Mike needed some repairs to his Anderson Plug. Off again and we arrived at Devil's Marbles - how beautiful this place is. We camped down here for the night and caught up with a family we did the Mine tour with. There was about 10 campers in all. The sunset was lovely. We climbed up the rocks to take pics. Trice and I went for a long walk to explore. The boys did the adventureous walks and climbs, I am sure they thought they were mountain goats. The night sky was fantastic, they have benches you lie on to watch the stars. Johnny was our teacher pointing out all the different stars, we decided he must have done well at school.

Up early this morning (Thursday 18.03) to take more pics of the surise over the rocks. We visited the Telegraph Station, lots of old buildings and cementry. Must have been hard living here in the old days. We attempted to go and see the Pebbles but looked like a dirt road for some 50kms, turned around and headed off to Katherine. We are at Elliott a small town on the Stuart Highway. We are parked at the back of the Servo, there are about 6 vans some people travelling south and others heading for Daly Waters to fish. I went for a swim in the pool, not the best but cooled me down and did some exercise. A blue heeler has moved in under our awning and making himself at home. Hope he doesn't think he is coming with us in the morning.

Off to Daly Waters pub tomorrow.