South to Tennant Creek and then East to Mount Isa

As we were going in the same direction we joined up with Graeme and Hazel with the idea that if anything went wrong we could support each other! We set off from Katherine about an hour after Graeme and Hazel and stopped at the Cutta Cutta caves for a tour round. We then headed on south to Larrimah to take a picture of the Pink Panther outside the pub and then on down to Daly Waters where we were going to stop for the night. The pub is really something. There is money, clothes, underwear, ID’s, business cards and all sorts of other stuff that people have left behind to decorate the place. It has a bottle tree, a thong (flip flops to you Brits) tree and a Bundy Bear tree. It was great and just what you would expect of an outback pub for some reason. The following day it was down to Tennant Creek and yet again we arrived after Graeme & Hazel. They were by the pool when we arrived so it made sense to join them. I jumped in and it was freezing! We’ve been used to the pools being on the warm side and this one was cold which came as a bit of a shock. At Tennant Creek we turned eastwards for the trip to the coast. There aren’t a lot of places to stop between Tennant Creek and Mount Isa so we decided just to get as far as we could in one days hard driving and we managed to get over the state boundary into Queensland and into the township of Camooweal. The following morning it was a short run into Mount Isa.