Left the well resourced camp site at Isisford to head east to Blackall then North to Barcaldine. It was mainly new country today with lush pastures of native grasses and low height trees. There were plenty of fat cattle around and a steady stream of traffic coming towards us until we reached Barcaldine.
We stopped there for a quick bite to eat before refuelling and heading north through Aramac and onto Muttaburra. We set up in the Muttaburra Caravan Park which you pay via an honesty box ($10 per night for unpowered sites which is all we could get as the park is full). It’s interesting to see all these grey gonads just parked here for the cheap accommodation. The hotel is just 500 metres walk up the street and, other than the Muttaburrasaurus Interpretation Centre, is the only attraction in town. It’s unusual for us to drive through such expansive scenery and actually see green grass and not bare red dirt.
We will head south again tomorrow and check out the towns of Aramac, Barcaldine and Blackall before moving a little further south into previously travelled country.