Day 7 Sunday 11th August - Mt Isa to Normanton

Today is officially know as 'Driving Miss Daisy' day. Why? Well it was Patty's turn to drive, and she thought she was doing alright but Wiggo (the world's worst navigator) kept getting up her; she was either driving to fast or driving to slow, so to get back at Wiggo Patty decided to drive at 40 klm/hr or slower.  This went on for an hour before she hit a rock on the road.  This was the conversation that followed:
Wiggo "Didn't you see that rock?"
Patty " No, I was going to fast, do you want me to slow down".
Well, the girls burst into laughter.  They were laughing so much they had tears rolling down their face.  All Wiggo could manage was 'What, what's so funny, what's the joke".  This of course made the girls laugh even more.  After this Patty thought it best to drive a little faster & the rest of the day went without incident.

Last night (Sat. 10th Aug) we had a surprise visit from James Blundell who did a camp fire sing along with a group of Basher fans.  He was even at the start line this morning to wave us off as we started our drive to Normanton.

 

We even had a visit from Bob Katter.

 

 

Our trip so far has been relatively good.  We have had no major problems.  The same can't be said for all cars and some even had maintenance work done on them on the road side.  After a little tender loving care the car was back on the road.

 

Our lunch stop for today was at the Burke & Wills road house.  To fill in some time the Clampett's  had a game of pool.  They even had their own set of family designed pool balls.

 

 

 

No stopover at Normanton would be complete without a visit to the world famous Purple Pub.

 

We have another late start tomorrow (8:30am) so maybe we will get a sleep in.

Until Monday night.  C ya lata...nighty nite.