Vamos rumbo al Uluru o la
Roca Ayer’s, en todo el centro de Australia. Pero antes hay que manejar y manejar!
El 24 de Febrero manejamos
desde Milla Milla a Hughenden.
Paramos en varios lugares solamente a tanquear. El unico lugar interesante fue
Ravenshoe, donde habia un señor tocando guitarra y me fui a hablar con el y
toco una cancion muy bonita.
Una señora en un puesto de
informacion nos sugirio tomar la Autopista Savannah que nos lleva al Uluru;
pero antes de llegar a la interseccion The Lindt nos encontramos a un empleado gubernamental
que coincidencialmente trabaja en las vias y nos dijo que debido al cyclon que
habia habido en el Golfo de Carpentaria las vias estaban cerradas y no habia
paso en algunas secciones, nos recomendo tomar otra ruta. Ahora vamos a tomar la Autopista
A6. En la interseccion The Lindt
tuvimos dos opciones, la ruta larga (Autopista 63 hacia Charters Towers y luego
A6 hacia Hughenden) o la ruta corte (Autopista 62 hacia Hughenden). En la bomba de gasolina la señora nos
dijo que la via no tenia inundaciones.
La autopista 62 se llama Ruta en Desarrollo Kennedy (mucho ojo con la
palabra “Desarrollo”)… es una via “hibrida” y con “hibrida” me refiero a que hay
partes pavimentadas y partes destapadas.
Manejamos 270Km y solo nos encontramos 5 carros, 3 en el sentido
contrario y 2 en la misma direccion de nosotros. No creo que ganamos mucho tomando esta via porque no
podiamos manejar muy rapido en las partes destapadas. Tambien habia que tener cuidado con vacas y toros porque las
fincas en esta zona no tienen linderos y siempre nos encontramos varios toros
en la via… bastante miedoso!
Tambien nos encontramos un par de canguros en la via.
Nos demoramos como 3.5 horas
para recorrer los 270Km pero llegamos a Hughenden sanos y salvos.
El 25 de Febrero manejamos
desde Hughenden hasta Camooweal.
Paramos en cada pueblo que nos encontramos en el camino a tanquear…
bueno, solo hay unos cuantos, Richmond, Julia Creek, Cloncurry, Mount Isa y
Camooweal. Todo esto en un
recorrido de 711Km, pore so habia que parar en cada uno y llenar el tanque!
El mas emocionante es Mount
Isa que tiene una mina de plata-plomo a cielo abierto.
Llegamos a Camooweal antes
del atardecer pues nosh an recomendado no manejar de noche porque se pueden
atravezar canguros, cerdos salvajes, toros o vacas. Por la noche fuimos al bar del pueblo a tomarnos una
cerveza. En el pueblo viven
solamente 187 personas y habian unas 50 en el bar… bueno, era Sabado. Nos fuimos antes de que se pusiera
pesado el ambiente, ya habian varios borrachos!
El 26 de Febrero fue mas de
lo mismo. Manejamos 960Km de
Camooweal a Alice Springs. Paramos
a almorazar en una formacion rocosa que se llama Devil’s Marbles, donde hay
unas piedras que no se explican todavia como llegaron a parar ahi en los
lugares donde estan. Salimos a las
7:30am y llegamos a Alice Springs a las 6:15pm. Esta vez tambien paramos en casi todos los pueblos a
tanquear… creo que solo se nos paso uno!
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We are heading to the Uluru
or Ayer’s Rock, right in the centre of Australia.
On February 24 we drove from
Millaa Millaa to Hughenden. We
stopped at several places to fill up only. The only interesting place was Ravenshoe, where I heard a
guy playing guitar and I went to talk to him and he played a very nice song.
We had chosen one of the
suggestions from a lady in the information centre. We were going to take the Savannah Highway which will take
us to the Uluru; however we stopped just before The Lindt Juntion and talked to
a Queensland Government road services employee (just the person we needed) and
he told us that due to the latest cyclon in the Gulf of Carpentaria the road
was flooded and it was best for us to take a different route. We are now heading towards Highway A6. At The Lindt Junction we had two
options, the long route (Highway 63 to Charters Towers and then A6 to
Hughenden) or the shortcut (Highway 62 to Hughenden). We asked the lady at the petrol station and she said that
they shortcut was a good option and it was not flooded so we opted for that
option. The shortcut, Highway 62
is also called Kennedy Developmental Road (pay attention to the “Developmental”
part of it)… this is a “hybrid” road and by “hybrid” I mean that there are
sealed or paved sections as well as unsealed, gravel or unpaved sections. We drove for 270Km on this road and
came across to just 5 cars, 3 in the opposite direction and 2 in the same
direction as us. We did not gain
too much ground today as the speed on the unsealed, gravel, unpaved sections
was much slower. We also had to be
very careful as the farms are not fenced so we encounter several 400Kg bulls
wandering in the middle of the road… that was scary! There was also the odd wallaby on the side of the road.
It took us over 3.5 hours to
drive this stretch of highway but fortunately enough we arrived in Hughenden
safely.
On February 25 we drove from
Hughenden to Camooweal. We stopped
in every single town we found along the road to fill up… well, there are only a
hand full of them, Richmond, Julia Creek, Cloncurry, Mount Isa and
Camooweal. All this in a span of
711Km, this is why we stopped in every single one of them to fill up!
The only one exciting was
Mount Isa which has an open pit silver-lead mine.
We arrived at Camooweal just
before sunset as there is a recommendation not to drive at night due to the
high risk of hitting a kangaroo, wild pig, bulls or cows. We went to the local pub for a couple
of beers. There is only 187 people
living in Camooweal and there were around 50 people at the pub… well, it was
Saturday night. We left before it
got too crazy though!
February 26 was much more of
the same. We drove 960Km from
Camooweal to Alice Springs. We stopped for lunch at Devil’s Marbles, a rock
formation in the middle of the desert.
It is unexplainable how these rocks ended up where they are. We left at 7:30am and arrived at 6:15pm
in Alice Springs. Again, we
stopped at almost every town to fill up… I think we missed only one!
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Turbinas de Viento, Queensland, Australia
Wind Turbines, Queensland, Australia |
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Nido de Termitas, Queensland, Australia
Termites Nest, Queensland, Australia |
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Autopista 62, Queensland, Australia
Highway 62, Queensland, Australia |
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Parque Nacional Cañon Porcupine, Queensland, Australia
Porcupine Gorge National Park, Queensland, Australia |
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Parque Nacional Cañon Porcupine, Queensland, Australia
Porcupine Gorge National Park, Queensland, Australia |
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Parque Nacional Cañon Porcupine, Queensland, Australia
Porcupine Gorge National Park, Queensland, Australia |
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Autopista A6, Queensland, Australia
Highway A6, Queensland, Australia |
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Nido de Termitas, Queensland, Australia
Termites Nest, Queensland, Australia |
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Ranas de labio blanco en el baño del puesto de información de Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia
White lipped frogs in Cloncurry's information centre toilet, Queensland, Australia |
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Monte Isa, Queensland, Australia
Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia |
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Mina a cielo abierto en Monte Isa, Queensland, Australia
Open pit mine in Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia |
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Grillo, Queensland, Australia
Cricket, Queensland, Australia |
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Grillo, Queensland, Australia
Cricket, Queensland, Australia |
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Llegamos a el Territorio del Norte, Northern Territory, Australia
We got to the Northern Territory, Northern Territory, Australia |
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Tren de Carretera, Northern Territory, Australia
Road Train, Northern Territory, Australia |
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Formación Rocosa Devil's Marbles, Northern Territory, Australia
Devil's Marbles, Northern Territory, Australia |
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Formación Rocosa Devil's Marbles, Northern Territory, Australia
Devil's Marbles, Northern Territory, Australia |
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Formación Rocosa Devil's Marbles, Northern Territory, Australia
Devil's Marbles, Northern Territory, Australia |
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Formación Rocosa Devil's Marbles, Northern Territory, Australia
Devil's Marbles, Northern Territory, Australia |
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| Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia |
