Hells Gate to Burke and Wills Camp 119. The coldest start to the day for months, approximately 12 degrees celsius, jumpers pulled out from the bottom of the clothing cupboard. Slow to warm up and adjusting to the time change we commenced our days travel at 0930hrs, odometer 93729kms. We drove along the corrugated gravel road on the Savannah Way to Doomadgee here we fuelled up at 1.447 cents per litre. The Road House now out on the highway and the aboriginal community appeared to have got their alcohol problem under control since we last visited, with the Queensland Alcohol Management Plan. The Aboriginal community is situated on the Nicholson River and it was good to see some aboriginal children come into the roadhouse. Here we fuled up and inflated our tyres back to 40psi Travelling
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