DSC_0126.JPG=The "3 ways" junction near the "Burke and Wills" roadhouse
DSC_0010.JPG=Cloncurry; Chinaman Creek Dam
07BurkeDevRoad.jpg=These grasses had a different and unusual "rust coloured" appearance due to the seed heads.
DSC_0103.JPG=The entrance to one of the large cattle breeding stations
DSC_0148.JPG=A nice of stands of Ghost Gums in the red soil
DSC_0151a.JPG=Joy enjoyed the drive from the Gulf to Cloncurry and did about 3/4 of the drive. She did good work and missed most of the potholes while Dave did the complex navigating work.
DSC_0016.JPG=the "Burke and Wills" roadhouse
DSC_0013.JPG=The Flinders River is low now after an unusually dry "Wet Season"
BDRPano01.JPG=Sunset at the "Bang Bang" rest area on the Burke Development Rd between Cloncurry and Normanton (panorama)
BDRPano03.JPG=Sunset at the "Bang Bang" rest area on the Burke Development Rd between Cloncurry and Normanton (panorama)
DSC_0037crop.jpg=From the "Burke and Wills" roadhouse - don't you just love the thought.
DSC_0016a.JPG=The Flinders River is low now after an unusually dry "Wet Season"
DSC_0153.JPG=After a week at Karumba/Normanton we were back to the dry creek beds near Cloncurry.
DSC_0015a.JPG=The Flinders River is low now after an unusually dry "Wet Season"
DSC_0049.JPG=3am at the "Bang Bang" rest area I was up because our gas bottle had run out and the fridge was flashing a warning - this B-Double pulled up, lit up like Christmas
07BurkeDevRoad1.jpg=Sign at the "Bang Bang" rest area on the Burke Development Rd between Cloncurry and Normanton. For our friends with Enlish accent, it is pronounced "Wup Wup"
DSC_0018.JPG=the "Burke and Wills" roadhouse
DSC_0010a.JPG=The Flinders River is low now after an unusually dry "Wet Season", but this is one of the places where Normanton and Karumba get isolated during a normal wet season.
DSC_0018a.JPG=These grasses had a different and unusual "rust coloured" appearance due to the seed heads.
ChinamanPano02.JPG=Cloncurry; Chinaman Creek Dam (panorama)
DSC_0012.JPG=The Flinders River is low now after an unusually dry "Wet Season"
BDRPano02.JPG=Sunset at the "Bang Bang" rest area on the Burke Development Rd between Cloncurry and Normanton (panorama)
13BurkeDevRoad1.jpg=Some unusual rusty red vines that covered small trees gave a ghost-like appearance.
ChinamanPano01.JPG=Just outside Cloncurry is the Chinaman Creek Dam which is used as a recreational area by the locals (panorama)
DSC_0008.JPG=Leaving the "Bang Bang" rest area, we continue north toward Normanton
07BurkeDevRoada.jpg=A small but desterted termite mound broken open we can see the passageways built by the termites.
13BurkeDevRoad2.jpg=The country is almost flat for the entire 400km drive except for the rocky outcrops near the "Burke and Wills" roadhouse.
13BurkeDevRoad.jpg=Back near the Barkly Highway after her long drive we turned left for a rest overnight at Cloncurry before travelling on to Mt Isa the next day.
DSC_0123.JPG=One of the many narrower sections of the highway were single lane only.
DSC_0017.JPG=On the Burke Development Rd; the "Burke and Wills" roadhouse. It is the approximate midway point between Cloncurry and Normanton
06BurkeDevRoad.jpg=On the Burke Development Rd between Cloncurry and Normanton; the Termite Mounds are sometimes so thick that it looks like a cemetary.
DSC_0107.JPG=More Termite Mounds.
DSC_0112crop.jpg=Some unusual rusty red vines that covered small trees gave a ghost-like appearance.
BDRPano04.JPG=Sunrise at the "Bang Bang" rest area on the Burke Development Rd between Cloncurry and Normanton (panorama)
DSC_0015.JPG=the "Burke and Wills" roadhouse
DSC_0019.JPG=No mobile coverage at the "Burke and Wills" roadhouse, but at least Telstra has a couple of payphones
06BurkeDevRoad1.jpg=On the Burke Development Rd between Cloncurry and Normanton; the "Burke and Wills" roadhouse
DSC_0108.JPG=More Termite Mounds - not hard to understand why metal telephone/telegraph poles had to be used.
DSC_0150.JPG=For the first half of the journey from Cloncurry to the Gulf, there was mostly dry creek beds on the Burke Development road.
DSC_0128.JPG=the "Burke and Wills" roadhouse
DSC_0046.JPG=Sunset at the "Bang Bang" rest area on the Burke Development Rd between Cloncurry and Normanton
ChinamanPano03.JPG=Cloncurry; Chinaman Creek Dam (panorama)
