Keep up with Sue and Steve

09 May 2018

Flies, heat & more flies!

After three weeks of above average temperatures with no end in sight, plagues of flies & mosquitoes and some repairs needed on the truck we decided to head home and regroup.

It would only take a week to get back, we could wait for the temperatures to return to normal and for the flies to die back, then the idea is we will head to Far North Queensland to finish the trip.

Quandong Beach Sunset

Beach Flower

To Infinity & Beyond

Flies

And more flies!

The 'Plenty Highway' 499 km to the Qld Border

Depth markers of the floods!

More Road Train dust

The highway converted to a runway for the Royal Flying Doctor Service

Camels

Camels have fly problems too!

Rugged beauty of the outback

WedgeTailed Eagle

Wedgie & Roadkill

Abandoned home

Cockatiels

Red Capped Robin

White Faced Heron

Blue Bonnet

29 April 2018

Alice to Broome & back. Heat & flies!!

From Alice Springs we decided to head up to Broome in Western Australia via the Tanami Track. The road is 1050 Km to Halls Creek, mostly dirt road, with just a couple of Aboriginal communities on the way. A welcome spot near Halls Creek is Palm Springs, a great camp site amid the dust of the deserts.

Broome had been hit with three cyclones earlier in the year and combined with the unseasonably hot weather the heat, humidity & mosquitoes were unreal. We decided the only way to survive was to head back to Alice to cool temperatures!

Heading back to Queensland via the Plenty & Donahue Highways tomorrow - more dirt roads :)