07 November 2010

Ease in to Camooweal - 840km

A very easy day today. Only 840km all up. Longreach to Camooweal. On the road at 6:05am and a little fuel for Ian. Then it was a very pleasant ride the 177km to Winton for breakfast.
The weather was still quite cool, in the low 30's so the riding was still pleasant.
We had a short stop in McKinlay to check Ian's fuel flow and not long after we were in Cloncurry for a fast fuelup.
Not so. The pump ran very slowly and took about four minutes to put in 23 liters. So the whole stop took six minutes pull in to back on the road. Not so good.
Back on the road again and we enjoyed the run in to Mt Isa over the rugged country. It makes a nice change after all the flat stuff since Dalby the day before.

By now the day was rather warm - 36C and the run to Camooweal was draining. But we arrived before the real heat of the afternoon hit and are now holed up in a nice air conditioned room back of the pub.
Ian spent a bit of time attaching Charleen's HID driving lights.

Only trouble here is there is very little Internet coverage so I'll try uploading via the iPhone.

1 comment:

  1. Thanks for the interesting blog, Mate. Hope the weather stays kind to you both.

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