75 Normanton and Karumba

Normanton is an interesting town with a lot of history. Being an inland port for the surrounding districts. Especially in the wet with flood water everywhere.

Burn Philip had ware house and port for all their produce.

Now the home of the information centre

Also the home of the life size replica of an 8.6-metre saltwater crocodile named Krys, shot by a lady no less Kyrstina Pawlowski in the Norman River in 1957.

The Gulf lander train that, today is all but a tourist thing, still runs between Normanton and Croydon.

Too expensive for us to do the trip.  Around the station there is a lot of history, old trains, rolling stock and equipment. Hence all the old bits that are around to be restored.

We did a run out to the coastal town of Karumba. The last town on the west side of Cape York peninsular in the Gulf of Carpentaria. It is a port for live Cattle Export Shipments, Century Zinc Export and Fishing Industry! Also holiday fishing place, with 3 caravan parks all full. The only problem is no one told the fish as no one was catching anything. They are blaming it on NO RAIN this wet.

We had never heard of these clouds before was really interesting. These notice information boards are all around Karumba for all to read.

A nice laid back town. A long way to come though. The birdlife is very good, Kites (Eagles) everywhere, lots of Brolgas in mobs of 20-50. Cattle all along, in fact one station Delta Downs were working cattle in yards next to the road with road trains lined up ready to load out.

A great day was had by all leaving us very impressed.