13th August
Last night we camped at ‘Crocodile Dundee’s’ Walkabout Creek Hotel. We hadn’t really planned to come here, but it was a great little stop.
Yesterday, when we left Longreach, we weren’t even sure which way we were headed. We hadn’t decided whether we were going to head to Alice Springs via the Simpson Desert, along the Plenty Highway or take the main route via Mt Isa, along the Barkly & Stuart H’ways. But after chatting to a few people in Winton yesterday morning, we were advised that the Plenty Highway was in bad condition and very corrugated, so we opted to keep driving along the Barkly Highway and ended up here…
The sunset was nice, with lots of old cars and farming machinery around, making it good for photography.
We popped into the pub later for a few schooners and some hot chips. It was cool – full of Crocodile Dundee memorabilia and a nice atmosphere.
McKinlay, where the pub is, seemed to mark a change in the scenery. Approaching McKinlay from the East was all flat, dry, grassland. And heading west, toward Mt Isa, the scenery become rocky and rugged, with big rocky outcrops, not dissimilar to those in the Kimberley.
The Travelling Dixons 