The Great Outback

On the road again..... to Mount Isa,

What is there to tell about Mount Isa? It's a pretty big city in the Outback, and yeeeeh with Woolies! Didn't see Woolies for a few weeks now!! Go shopping!!

There is not much to say about Mount Isa because it's a mining city and that's, to my opinion, not very interesting, but I can say a lot about the OUTBACK! I’ll came back on this later.

Still I have some pictures of Mount Isa on which you may be feel a bit of the outback already;

The mine in the distance is copper mine

A visitor who liked wine

It looks very dry hey! But there was water to, Lake Moondarra, water supply for Mount Isa;

On the side is a big recreation park

What exactly is the Outback;

Most states in Australia do have an outback, f.i. Queensland which sounds very tropical doesn't it? still more than half is outback. New South Wales, Northern Territory, most of Western Australia is outback and even South Australia has outback, except Victoria and Tasmania don't have an outback.

How does the outback feel? Most probably when you read my statement you think you don't want to be there but I can tell you, it's fascinating! Ok here's what the outback is like:

Dirty feet - 

Bloody hot.........

Dirty finger nails - for 99 % sure the sun is shining and no rain - the water is always warm and has a bad taste and thus also the coffee, to buy a bottle water, without bad taste is about $ 3,50 - warm swimming pools - never a cold shower - the groceries are very very expensive, fruit and vegetables are hardly to buy and not fresh, you wonder how people can stay healthy - petrol is twice as expensive,  normally we drive on LPG, that’s hardly to get in the outback so we have to drive on petrol - sweating all the time.

Dust -dry - dry rivers - 

always having water regulations. 

It's not my intention to be discriminating but there are a lot aboriginals who live in the outback 


and lots of them having trouble with alcohol which also means restrictions for us, you cannot buy cartons of wine before 4 o'clock and sometimes even before 6 o'clock and the prices again are outrageous. The most important haha is the beer that is soooooo expensive, the worst is: $ 66.00 per box with 30 cans.

Red earth - 




always being alert for animals on the road, dead ones and the ones who want to jump in front of your car, it's better not to drive late and in the early morning - cows on the road - 



very big distances - signs like "next 500 km, no fuel" - 

all drivers of cars waive to each other. 

But.....even in the middle of nowhere, when you haven't seen people for a long time, even then you will find a toilet with toilet paper and water!!  Terrific!!

Wiping your table three times a day 

- dry eyes, I cannot weir my lenses - as soon as you expose bread in to the open air, it turns into toast in a few seconds without even using a toaster, isn't that economical?

Road trains; 

That's it again folks!

If you ever come to Australia for a holiday, don't ignore the OUTBACK, it's got a special feeling!

Cheers!