Things seen on the road to Mt Isa:
2383 dead kangaroos and wallabies by the roadside (this is an estimate, I eventually stopped counting).
512 blown tires (also an estimate).
110 kilometers at one stretch without a curve, sign or intersecting side road or... anything.
40 skeletal African famine cows plucking leaves off thorntrees.
8 actual passenger cars, the rest of the minimal traffic being poo softening roadtrains, safari style farm trucks (where do the farmers live??) and campers like ours.
4 settlements of any sort.
0 farm houses or any structures outside of the settlements.
0 live kangaroos.
0 police.
Oh, and I forgot. Either a bazillion or gajillion, whichever is the bigger number, termite mounds. The locals sometimes put t-shirts on them. This is distracting and strange. "Look, there's...! Never mind."
We didn't make it to Mt Isa, only Julia Creek as darkness comes much sooner here than expected. And after dark you don't want to be driving. See the kangaroo masacre statistic above. It's like they've joined a doomsday cult that tells them to gather on the roads at night and jump in front of roadtrains so that they can become reincarnated as... what? Wombats?
At least we got some laundry done at Julia Creek.
So why haven't you hit a roo yet? Skilled driving? Lucky misses? Or denial...
ReplyDeleteSimple - don't drive at night in Australia! You definitely could not deny hitting one... they are large and heavy enough to even stop the camper. No "roo bars" on it, unlike most Outback vehicles.
DeleteSimple - don't drive at night in Australia! You definitely could not deny hitting one... they are large and heavy enough to even stop the camper. No "roo bars" on it, unlike most Outback vehicles.
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