Day 38 (6th July, 2015): The little town of Isisford in the Outer Barcoo Region

Today we are heading for Isisford, on the Barcoo River. 

We head back through Longreach - having an obligatory stop at the Bakery here. Then to Ilfracombe and take a right turn down the Isisford-Ilfracombe Rd. 

I was a bit unsure about how this road would be - but on the whole it was a pretty good "one lane highway". 

Our challenges on this journey are no different today - roadkill (wallabies & cows) to dodge and the live Roos that decide to bound across the road - as well as the roaming cattle to watch for.

We encounter no road trains - which is a bonus - but today's journey brings a new challenge - dodging  cyclists - about a dozen spread out along this narrow road - riding to Isisford.

We arrived about 2pm and found a great spot on the Barcoo Weir campground - they charge $3.00 per night per site - and supply treated water, flushing toilets and showers in town behind the shire office. 

It's a popular stopover for the grey nomads for all these reasons and the general store has got a small laundromat (3x machines) available for the travellers.

It's a short walk into town - like about 5mins and they have a new interpretive centre about fossils found in the area and a lovely little cafe attached to this. 

We headed over to the shire office to pay our $3.00 camping fees and then into the cafe for a coffee.

Seated at a table outside in the warm sun we chatted with a couple of the cyclists we had passed just coming into Isisford. They are on a holiday ride (privately organised) from Charters Towers to Charleville - over 12 days.  The people on the ride have all paid to do this organised trip and are from many different locations around QLD. 

The guy that organised it all has a couple of support vehicles and he supplies the tents and food - so all they have to do each day is ride!!!

They were having a ball and loving it - 12 people getting to know each other each day riding and camping and socialising along the way!!

Good luck to them - but damm sure I would not like to be out on these roads with the road trains and my god they must get a good whiff on recent roadkill as they dodge it riding along!!!!

We were soon back at camp relaxing by the waterside at the weir with the Pelicans.

I headed up to "check out" the loos and came back armed with a mobile number for a local who would deliver some firewood for $10.

Since we did not want to unhitch for his one night and head out of town to collect firewood I gave the number a call. 

Sure enough it would not be a problem to bring some down for us and about a half hour later mum, dad and the young son turn up with our firewood in the trailer. It was gidgee - my favourite firewood  - and for the $10 we had enough for a couple of nights.

They were a lovely local family and after a bit of a chat with them I set up the fire ready to cook a small BBQ for dinner tonight.

The challenge cooking the BBQ was the interest of a couple of Kookaburras - so we had to be very vigilant watching over the sausages as they cooked.

My little barbie did a perfect job cooking the sausages yet again and we enjoyed a yummy dinner in this very pleasant and relaxing spot.

We are getting much cooler nights now as we head home and instead of looking for shady spots for our stopovers we are looking for the open sunny spots.