Our campsite overlooking the river just east of Charters Towers. It was very high, but you could see evidence that floodwaters had been there recently.
KISA travels with his computer...and internet..which is why this blog is being posted on the road!
Life is so easy when you don't need to unhitch..you just drive up, and put down the stabilisers and climb inside.
The sun went down and of course that meant it was time to open a bottle and watch the light show. That is the Burdekin railway bridge in the background.
Bikkiesand cheese and music.
First sunset of the trip, be warned, lots more to come!
White Mountain, when you finally get to see the great inland flat expanses, it it amazing.
The big Comet windmill at Prairie. We stopped here last Easter in the camper trailer so had to take a pic with Jessie Kedron this time. 
Our camp at Richmond was at the Lake Fred Tritton Caravan Park. This shot looks over to the Richmond Hospital, where my Dad worked in the early 1960's.
There are lots of these rocks around Richmond. It is also full of fossils of dinosaurs. This one looks like some fossilised dinosaur poo. But it really isn't :-)
This lake is quite nice though it is man made. Fish were jumping when we walked around it.
The bush tucker gardens were interesting. I think every Australian should know how to recognise the edible natural plants of this country. Many of our early explorers would have lived longer if they had known this stuff.
We found the water park. It was about 37 degrees that afternoon, so KISA did not take much persuading to get his kit off and get under the water mushroom thingy. 
He said it was REALLY nice and cool. 
More lake shots on a beautiful Good Friday in the outback. 
We went for a walk to the pub on Easter Saturday evening, and found this road sign. 
They found a dinousaur skeleton near Richmond, and have built up a tourism attration around it and called it Kronosauros Korner. KISA gets up close and personal with the dinosaur.
In the grounds of the caravan park is the old Richmond Water Tower. My Dad has some photos of this from his days in the 1960s. It as all fenced off though, so I couldn't climb it. 
Pink clouds from the sunset. We were facing east so the clouds in front of the van were a lovely pink colour.
It has been 46 years since I left Richmond. It was good to return, though it had a kind of air of decline about it, as many small country towns in Australia struggle these days. I wondered what my mother thought when she arrived here as a young bride in 1958. 
More lake shots on a beautiful Good Friday in the outback. 
We went for a walk to the pub on Easter Saturday evening, and found this road sign. 
They found a dinousaur skeleton near Richmond, and have built up a tourism attration around it and called it Kronosauros Korner. KISA gets up close and personal with the dinosaur.
In the grounds of the caravan park is the old Richmond Water Tower. My Dad has some photos of this from his days in the 1960s. It as all fenced off though, so I couldn't climb it. 
Pink clouds from the sunset. We were facing east so the clouds in front of the van were a lovely pink colour.
It has been 46 years since I left Richmond. It was good to return, though it had a kind of air of decline about it, as many small country towns in Australia struggle these days. I wondered what my mother thought when she arrived here as a young bride in 1958. 
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