18th May Wednesday. When one is traveling the same road but in reverse, its sometimes hard to find anything new to comment on. Same with us on the journey from Burke & Wills back to Mt Isa, via Cloncurry. Not boring at all, but not new. Stocked up on groceries etc, refueled ready for the coming journey into the west. Camooweal. We have been reading about the early cattle pioneers, the Duracks, Kidmans, etc and the later ones such as the Quiltys, so it was good to get the to major droving crossover point from the Northern Territory to Queensland which was Camooweal. It has the Georgina River, which settles into the Camooweal Billabong, a 5 km long series of “lakes” which are/were great for stock to rest at on their long drive to the rail
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