Mount Isa, Clem Walton to Cloncurry and Julia Creek

This blog entry sees us spend a week or so to travel from Mt Isa to Julia Creek.

Not a big drive to do in a day if you wanted to, but we stopped along the way. See details below

In Mt Isa we stocked up on Groceries, water etc 

Before heading to Clem Walton (Corella Dam) to camp for  2-3 days, we stopped at Mary Kathleen ghost town and 4WD up to the mine - we made it up towing the caravan behind us.

Staying just 10  minutes from Mary Kathleen we camped at Clem Walton. What a fantastic spot.

We stayed here 3 nights. Saw many crocs. This guy (below) we named Albert, but we saw 4-5 of them. Darren managed a quick swim with no damage. It was super hot here.

Below are a few photos.

A camp fire cooked roast lamb went down a treat - it came out perfect.

Leaving Clem Walton we headed to Cloncurry to check it out. We could not see the Lookout as it was closed. However we found an amazing swim pool complex. 

For only $3 we spent most of a very hot day there, before that evening heading for Julia Creek.

We initially planned to stop at the Oorinda free camp - but due to roadworks it was closed, and we pushed on toward Julia Creek.

Julia Creek has a nice stop just on its west side which is set up for RV's to pull in so we stayed there.

It was a whopping 40 deg when we arrived - and it remained the  same to well after 7pm when we were there. Its hard to measure Sunsets, but we have to say this nights one was amazing. They just seem to get better.  Captured this as a huge storm rolled in.

In the morning a huge storm hit us, it gave us about 5 mins to packup before it hit.

The front door of the Prado nearly got ripped clean off the hinges - it was unbelievable and the water came up really quickly, so we dragged the camper off the dirt and onto a tar road for safety.

We limped into the Julia park Caravan Park - where initially the owner was very hostile. However he eventually apologised and found us a camp (the camp was basically empty).

We were to do a romantic evening in the Julia Creek spa, but the weather at this stage was not playing ball. Sad - but then we have so many great times thus far its ok to miss out on one or two.