Day 9 Mount Isa to Tennant Creek

Today we travelled from Mount Isa to Tennant Creek, there is absolutely nothing between them, just a little place called Camooweal that has a pub, town hall and a post office, none of which appeared to be open. Known as “the longest main street in the world”, only we can not understand why when there are only a couple of buildings.





We did detour off the highway to see the Camooweal Caves National Park. The 13,800 ha of semi-arid Barkly Tablelands that make up the park are full of eucalypt woodland, spinifex, turpentine wattle shrubland and extensive areas of Mitchell grass plains. The park features caves and sinkholes that were formed when water percolated through 500 million year-old layers of soluble dolomite creating caverns linked by vertical shafts up to 75 metres deep.










We crossed into the Northern Territory and the speed limit here is 130 km, we stuck with the familiar 110km.



The second place between Mount Isa and Tennant Creek is Barkley Homestead, which has been rebuilt since we visited some 20 years ago, now a really lovely cafe/bar/motel.




We then made it to Tennant Creek.