Agnes Water to Bogantungan
Day 93
19th March, 2010

So we decided to head inland as fast as we could, with the cyclone looming towards the coast. Our aim was to make up as much ground toward Alice Springs as we could. A very dodgy overnight stop at a free camp in a ghost town. We woke to the sounds of silence. A very eerie place where we heard voices inside a house and lights on, but no one ever went in and no one ever came out. Let's get outta here!

Winton
Days 94 - 97
20th to 23rd March, 2010

We pulled up at a free camp behind the North Gregory Hotel. We spent the next few days exploring the "Home of Waltzing Matilda." We visited a museum dedicated to the history of the song, it was full of so much information and very interesting. Winton also has lots of dinosaur tracks close by, so we were very exposed to fossils and life size replicas of various dinosaurs - a boys delight. The kids had a ball banging on the public musical fence, a junkyard of objects that you can into the next Michael Jackson. We were camped in front of Arno's wall, another junkyard creation. A guy has made this concrete wall wth everything you can imagine in it, even the kitchen sink. Just when we thought we had escaped Ului, the edge of it got us. Flooded again!! So over rain!

Boulia Day
Day 98
24th March, 2010

A quick overnighter at Bouila, hot showers, some washing and watching the kids concert they made up for us. We visited the Min Min Encounter which gave us an insight into the very mysterious Min Min Lights and kept heading inland. We headed along the Donohue Highway that had been recently opened after all the rain and made it to NT Border - hooray. The very hairy unsealed road we had been travelling on had turned into the Plenty Highway. We were getting closer to destination Alice Springs.

Jervois Cattle Station
Day 99
25th March, 2010

We were now in the Red Centre. The earth was so rusty and red, it was an amazing feeling to be this far inland. The ground may have been red, but everything else was so green. All this rain we had experienced had given us this enormous treat of new growth and freshness. We filled up with diesel, at $1.88 p/L it must have had gold in it. We also found out that the road we travelled on yesterday was still closed on the NT side. We were officially the first ones to make it across the QLD/NT border on that road for this year. We can brag about it now that we made it across, don't think I would have posted it if it turned out we were the first ones to be stranded on the Plenty Highway. Alice here we come !!