Day 21 - Osborne

After a pretty handy breaky at the Burke and Wills roadhouse we headed south towards the "curry" with our week fully booked and Osbourne Mine being the first cab off the rank. On our way through we met up with this character riding around Australia on a chinses version of the postie bike called a "Mad Ass". Pretty keen if you like to ride on QLD roads at 70 kph!

Neil checking out the mad ass but not keen to swap!

Following a gee up from a Barrick big wig Britt and the social club had been busily planning for our arrival. The dirt track from Djarra into Phosphate Hill was fairly interesting with a distinct lack of maintenance since the last rain event left washouts at each creek. Once we arrived at site we were met by Britt and shown to our fairly luxurious rooms. At the bar a pool competition had been organised and Neil's skills as a shark were put to the test. Unfortunately Neil was planning to lose a couple before playing for the big money. The competition however was sudden death and Neil's cunning plan kind of failed.

The acting SSE of Osbourne, Paul, announced that the mine would donate the proceeds of their aluminium can recycling - over $4000. After the pool comp was completed the winners were presented with a prize donated by the social club.

Neil and Tom with the winners of the pool comp, Rod, Tracey and Britt. It would appear that Britt and Tracey were organising at this point and missed pausing for the pic!

In the morning we joined the night shift crew in a golf game on the spinafex course that had a distinct lack of grass. After a couple of holes Neil had lost more golf balls than the money the lads were putting up and Tom and Neil retired from the competition.
All up Osbourne donated over $5000 to the Flying Doctors - a very generous effort and is the most from a site thus far.