Stuck in Croydon 💧

There has been some bumps in the road since my last post! We left Barkly Homestead after 2 nights when we knew the road across to Queensland was no longer flooded. We made it across the border and to Mount Isa City, another one of these places of hustle and bustle which seems to pop up after driving hours and hours through the outback. We didn't plan on spending much time there as we are behind schedule and are trying to get to Cairns ASAP really. However, after thinking my phone was working, it turned out it just decided to work for long enough for me to think all was okay and then began with some extreme screen flickering. We spent a while in Isa while my phone got diagnosed at a repair shop. We needed to do a big supermarket shop and I was on the hunt for a new pair of sunglasses. There's a good viewpoint in the middle of the town with an artistic water tank, which shows the extent of Mount Isa Mine, the world's largest single producer of copper, silver, lead and zinc, w...