Accross the top of Queensland

After crossing into Queensland and staying at Mount Isa we headed north to pick up and follow the Savannah Way which runs in total 3699km from Broome in Western Australia to Cairns in Queensland.

Mount Isa town established in the 1924's to support the Mount Isa Mine which mines one of the worlds largest deposits of lead, zinc, silver and copper. Fleur and Ellie are posing with the  miners statue erected to acknowledge the fact that without mining there would be no town. We stayed 6 nights in Mount Isa whilst the brains at Toyota worked out what was wrong with and then fixed Larry. 

Normanton established on the Norman River by William Landsborough as a port for the Croydon gold rush. Home to the largest ever recorded salt water crocodile in the world named Krys who measured 8.63m when he was shot dead in 1957. This is a life size replica in the main street. The locals believe there is currently a bigger one alive in the river. 

Croydon a Historic Gold rush town in the Gulf Savannah. Established in 1885 following the discovery of gold. At the height of the rush there were 36 hotels and 122 liquor licences issued to the town. The gold soon ran out now the town has a number of interesting sculptures and a heritage area showing the buildings of the time.

Mount Surprise and what a surprised we only stopped for coffee and ice cream and ended up close and personnel with Clancy a 19 year old, 2m long black headed python. Turns out the guy running the café has a collecting of snakes which he was extremely keen to show us.

Millstream Falls - Plunging over the edge of a columnar basalt lava flow, Big Millstream Falls is reputedly the widest single-drop waterfall in Australia. It started to rain here...

Ravenshoe, Queensland highest town at 920m high and the highest point in the Misty Mountains. The place was extremely green after all the different shades of brown we have been seeing for the last 100+ days up to now. It carried on raining here....

At Australia's largest grower and producer of tea, Nerada, where over 1,000 acres of tea is grown on the Atherton Tablelands. Here we are doing what we do best, taking tea and scones. It was still raining.....

Artherton the regional centre of the tablelands - Fleur and Ellie inside the Worlds biggest Amethyst which came from Uruguay called the 'Empress of Uruguay'. Standing 3.5m tall and weighing 2.7t, it is in side a shop made to look like a cave in the high street of Artherton, for some reason. Still raining