Mt Isa

We left Karumba and headed down south to Cloncurry and then west to Mt. Isa.    We were on a mission to get tyres.    Four tyre services later and not a tyre our size to be found.   What the !!!!!!!!   Of course they could get them in for us in a couple of days at an exorbitant price.     By the time we had done the rounds of all the tyre services, topped up the shopping it was getting late in the day.   We were frustrated and cheesed off and couldnt be bothered staying and looking around the next day.   Probably a stupid move in hindsight, we were there, but we were just "over it".   Called Townsville, got a price for tyres, on the shelf, in stock, and decided to just head east and hope to god we didnt do another tyre.   Stopped off at Cloncurry for a look around, then lunch at Julia Creek which has a great free camp by the water.   By this time we were feeling OK, but then disaster struck and we blew an outside tyre.   No spare.  We had 100km to go to the next town.    We limped along at 40kmph for the next 50.   Praying that the pressure on the remaining single back tyre wouldnt be too much and leave us well and truly stranded.   Managed to get to a rest area 50k down the road, our back tyre was very hot and very low in pressure so we decided to stay the night and let the tyre and us cool off.   Rick put some air in the tyre  and we phoned ahead to the town of Richmond to see if they could get us tyres in from Townsville.  Phone service was hit and miss where we were so we had to keep wandering to get a signal and wait for a phone call.     Thankfully the garage arranged for the tyres to be freighted out to them.   So we now had to limp a further 50km the next day to Richmond.   Every finger and toe was crossed, prayers were prayed that we would make it. Arrived Wednesday morning.   We are now here, the tyres were supposed to arrive at 9.30 this morning, Thursday, but they havent turned up.   Looks like they will be here later today which means we will prob. stay on another night.   We are getting 4 new tyres right across the back.   Once we have these we will head off again, going East back towards the Coast.   Hopefully, this is the last of our dramas.   One more and we will be heading home, broke.  !!!!!!!!!!!