We headed out on the highway again this morning headed for Mount Isa. The scenery around us was almost completely flat expect for a few hills that are called jump ups. There are quite a few trees and we learnt from Charlie that they are mostly cassis trees and gidgee. Gidgee is a noxious weed that the farmers try to control the spread of. The deep red parched earth grows mostly only Spinifex. It too, is useless as cattle feed and we saw few cattle.
There are two towns between Winton and Cloncurry, Kynuna and McKinlay. The McKinlay pub is famous as the pub used in the movie Crocodile Dundee.
We stopped in Cloncurry and then headed on towards Mt Isa, stopping briefly at the Burke & Wills memorial just outside of Cloncurry.The landscape changed dramatically as we switched highways from the Landsborough Highway to the Barkly Highway. The road was no longer flat and straight, but curving and hilly and all around us were towering jagged peaks of rough red mountains all the way into Mt Isa.