Fri 2nd July The weather is overcast and gloomy but the good news is we have heard that Darwin has reported no more Covid19 cases, and so the lockdown will be lifted at last. We have been thinking of our family and friends experiencing it for the first time. We turned off the Savannah Way and onto the Great Inland Way heading for Charters Towers, considered to be where the outback meets the tropics. We know very little about the place other than many of the students who passed through Katherine School of the Air, came to boarding school here. The trip was uneventful with just a quick stop for fuel at Greenvale ($1.46). We moved on from C to D and the first track was a Rod Stewart hit 'Da Ya Think I'm Sexy'. Conditions did improve and by the time we got to town it was fine enough for Eric to have a hit of golf while I went into town for a look see. I was immediately struck by the architectural reminders of the booming goldrush era, somewhat like Ballarat and Bendigo where ...