Late August - September 2018
27/08-04/09
A couple of days in Brisbane beforehand for work, beat P to Mt Isa by 24 hours as her trip took 32 hours! Great work Qantas. Camping in Adeles Grove for a couple of nights before back exploring Mt Isa Mines.
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6 hire bike ride.
Adeles grove.
The story of Adeles grove is a little sad with a massive 50 year old botanical garden being destroyed by fire shortly after the local mine started. "... Albert de Lestang was in his early seventies and having lost his building complex, all of his written records of plants and their hybrids, his stores and a large percentage of the planted Grove he succumbed shortly thereafter...". Tis pretty though.
Lovely canoe down the gorge, water was low nearing the end of dry season but the spring flows all year around
Successful Mavic wet launch and catch from canoe.
Definition of an oasis
Not sure if P actually liked camping, or just creating dessert jaffels.
Disappointed I didn't do some 360 photography.
Lake Moondarra
A quick ride to Lake Moondarra
Mine on the edge of the town, or, town on the edge/above of the mine
A quick climb up to the Telstra Hill weather station
The first time crossing the Perth-Douglas line
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