{"id":1375,"date":"2017-09-21T15:14:18","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T15:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xbhp.com\/powertrip360\/?p=1375"},"modified":"2017-09-21T15:39:58","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T15:39:58","slug":"day-11-12-charters-towers-to-mt-isa-to-tennant-creek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xbhp.com\/powertrip360\/day-11-12-charters-towers-to-mt-isa-to-tennant-creek\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 11 & 12 : Charters Towers to Mt. Isa to Tennant Creek"},"content":{"rendered":"

The day #11 of #powerTrip360 was going to see us riding from Charters Towers to the industrial town of Mt. Isa in Queensland. Mt. Isa is also famous for its vast mineral deposits and has one of the most productive single mines in the world, producing lead, silver, copper & zinc. The total kilometres to be done in the day were around 750 and it took us good 8-10 hours of riding time to reach our destination. We had already moved away from the coast line and were riding inland now. The change in the atmosphere and the flora and fauna was quite visible. The population was getting thinner and meadows had already made way for vast arid land. The temperature during the daytime had also started rising. But it also meant lesser traffic on road. The availability of petrol pumps had also started becoming an issue and will soon become one of our biggest concerns as we move further towards Northern Territory and we will need to carry spare fuel, which we had none till now.<\/p>\n

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start of the 270 km long dirt road. We didn’t take it though, : )<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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a road train<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The day was rather uneventful except for the realization that the drone was finally gone and we could do nothing about it except sending it Melbourne to get it fixed. We reached Mt. Isa by around 9 p.m. but not before spending a good amount of time on road at night, trying to capture the milky way with our Sony cameras.<\/p>\n

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