MOUNT ISA

Along the bumpy Queensland roads we trundled to Mount Isa.
We really wanted to see the underground hospital, dug out of a hill taking 15 weeks to build during World War 2 amid fears the Japanese would invade, it was never used except subsequently by staff as somewhere cool to sleep, and some children played in it at one time, it was equiped in the style of the time - fascinating - we still know so little about those days.

We spent several days there waiting for a part for K & C's caravan and despite the heat relaxed
somewhat, walked about the township once again very hot and dry and dusty.
Drove out to the beautiful Moondarra Dam, huge, we sat under a ghost gum in the shade, Kevin identified several kinds of fish in there, but we had no lines.