23 Sep 10 - Mt Isa

By Lou: There wasn’t anything in particular that I wanted to do or see in Mt Isa, I just wanted to see it. Fortunately a lookout was provided to do just that.










I made Sam promise he’d hold off eating the soil , we took our photos, and then motored on out of there.







By Craig: We had one overnight stop on the way to Mt Isa. Fountain Springs, not much to say about that except as it was much like any other road side rest stop.











We had crossed the boarder into Queensland and were making tracks back to Ipswich.









Back on the road and heading to Isa it became obvious that the nights road kill was being cleaned up by Eagles. Frequently we would approach and have to slow down due to the stubbornness of the bird leading to a very slow take off. One particular Eagle left its run too late attempting to get its fill before take off it needed two hops to get airborne but unfortunately we collected it as it made a mid flight turn 3foot off the ground and straight into the front of our vehicle.





Large birds such as Eagles hit hard and as we pulled up looking back at the bird spread eagle on the bitumen (Pardon the pun) a trail of broken glass and plastic lay scattered across the road. Cruiser 1 with damage Eagle 0