The trip home

The Safari is over for another year. We did some local sight seeing with Geoff & Lee-Anne on the Tuesday. Wednesday we packed the car said our good byes and started the trip home. We planned to spend the first night at Wycliffe Well, the UFO capital of Australia. Had a swim in the pool but didn't see any UFO's. Next day we filled the car at about $1.90 a litre called in at the Devil's Marbles. These were much larger than I expected, some were about the size of a bus. We called in at the hospital in Tennant Creek to catch up with our neighbour  who was working there for 3 months, alas she had gone home. At the three ways we again filled the tank and had a cuppa. This outlet sells over 1,000,000 ltrs of diesel each year. The locals sometimes fly in and land on the highway, taxi around the back and have a few drinks. One chappy flies 500 klms in his helicopter just to talk to real people.
Later that day we filled up at Burnet Station both car and tummy. Diesel was about $1.98 and they claim they use 500 ltrs a day running their own power generators. Late that afternon we arrived in Mt Isa. I have to say I much prefered Broken Hill, both were similar in that the town and the mine co-exist right next to each other. The next morning we spent several hours at the base hospital and no it wasn't me it was Cupcake. We left rather late that morning and travelled to Kyuna That night we stayed in a cabin, a 3 bedroom house cost about $20,000. Our cabin was built in a container along with 3 others, very very basic. Fuel $1.58. How on earth does fuel cost $1.58 we were in the middle of no where and paid Kempsey prices. The next morning we set off early and called in to Longreach, had a look at the Qantas museum, very expensive so we only looked at the free stuff, across the road is the Stockman's hall of fame and this we did pay to see. It is very well done and would take probably 2 days to read everthing. several hours later we contiued to Tambo We chose to stay in an on site van cheap and nasty but the people were very nice, Genuine Aussies doing it tuff. Each night we looked for air-conditioning as we were told it would help poor old Cup cake. Day 5 and once again on the road At St George we paid ONLY $1.49 for fuel and continued to Moree for the night. Moree is a very beautiful city and we enjoyed our few hours. We had to find an engineering shop as we urgently needed some welding doing. We left Moree and had lunch in Armidale then travelled down the Armidale, Kempsey road. This was our first time down this way and how it gets called a road defies logic. A sign stated the road was closed. Well we ignored that and travelled to Kempsey. Road signs stated "narrow road" then came "Very Narrow road" followed by 'Watch for timber trucks". You would be flat out passing a push bike with safety. so just how you pass a timber truck I don't know.
In conclusion we travelled just over 7,000 klms, saw parts of Australia I have never seen before, learnt to really appreciate how beautiful the Kempsey area is. Enjoyed the company of friends and enjoyed the company of my best mate Cupcake. Finally I can't work out how fuel is priced it really does seem like a big rip of, $1.49 at St George $1.52 at Kempsey Go figure.
Cheers All
 Tea Bag