July 13 - heading back to Mount Isa
I know it's sounding like Mount Isa is a preferred destination for us - it is NOT! it was always about getting 'things' fixed. The fact that we had 3 visits was due to miscommunication AKA poor customer service. But back on the road from Burketown (south to Mount Isa yet again), we decided to retrace our steps out along the Savannah Way and then take the Augustus Downs road (don't recall it's official name) as it promised quiet relaxing travel and little traffic.
On the way to the turn off we passed Leichhardt Falls and of course had to stop for a look. On our way through to Burketown 5 days earlier we'd seen lots of campers there and there were still quite a few caravans/campers there pulled up to the very edge of the deep gorge which had been created by the falls over millenia. It is a hige river and a quite an awe-inspiring place.
There was no water going over the falls when we were there and it's hard to imagine what it might look like with water but it would be treacherous but rather magical I imagine.
Huge flocks of corellas festooned the trees on the opposite side of the falls gorge to where we had walked into.
Sadly so many people go in to camp there that the ground is being carved up and as a result is becoming seriously eroded.
At one stop we made the young cattle surrounded us, gorgeous things. And we passed some lovely flowers, one (R) an introduced species but still lovely as well as the Native Cotton (L) or maybe that was Sturt's Desert Rose.
We bit the bitumin and headed for Burke & Wills Roadhouse. It was toltally jam pack so we headed on down the road. We ended up at a gravel pit for the night.