Charles decided this morning that he wanted to go back today, so we are driving the inland route. Quite boring as it is the scruffy dry tropics, we are up quite high it is a bit cooler. We came across some very small towns but not much and very little traffic. Had hoped to go to the lava tubes but after hesitating for a second it was straight on. it seems to be mainly cattle stations but we came to this town Greenvale and it is quite developed with pub and pool, we thought it looked like a mining town. We stopped a guy and asked him and he told us that it used to be one of Bond's Nickel mines but it ran out and the town was diminished but not deserted as there were other mines around. he said that 7 mines were opening up soon which would make it prosper again. And they were going to build 200 houses and reopen The supermarket etc.
we arrived back and then went down to the Strand for a swim and BBQ.
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