Day 48: Hughenden to Charters Towers The first task this morning was to ring Nana and wish her a happy birthday. Darren was such a good son, after stressing all day yesterday reminding himself not to forget, he rang his mum at 8am with a birthday greeting. We spent a combined half an hour on the phone with her telling her all about our trip so far and hearing all the news from home. Happy birthday Nana, we hope you had a great day! Xxxxx Once off the phone w...

Day 47: Hughenden After a few days of constant driving an easy morning was the order of the day. So we got up after waking up naturally. Darren had a restful nights sleep last night which means I did too. The plan was to visit Flinders Discovery Centre and Porcupine Gorge, so after doing a load of washing and having breakfast we set off on our way. First stop was the discovery centre which houses the dinosaur museum and the information centre. We armed our...

Days 45 & 46. Tennant Creek to Mt Isa'ish to Hughenden It was bound to happen eventually, and there's no guarantee it won't happen again! Yesterday we encountered our first hurdle of the trip which was quite scary and intimidating but all turned out alright. Let me start from the beginning: as anticipated we managed an early departure from Tennant Creek yesterday. Due to leaving the van hooked up to the car we were able to leave by 7.30am, ready to embar...