Spent the night at Normanton CP. Quite a nice little park with a half size olympic pool! Absolutely bliss in this hot weather. And just over the road from the (in)famous Purple Pub.
Then on to Karumba the next day. We stayed at Karumba Point which is the perfect spot for viewing the incredible sunsets over the water, well the Karumba Sunset Tavern was anyway.
The Gulf is suffering from a locust plague at the moment. They’re everywhere. Giant brown grasshoppers. I’ve never seen anything like it and, of course, they’ve stripped the vegetation including the palm fronds.
We had been booked on a sunset cruise in the Gulf but got dumped for a busload of tourists. Not happy at all!!!!
While Karumba is pretty enough, if you don’t fish then there’s little all else there to do.
So back to Normanton for the night where we read about the largest croc ever killed and, might I ask, by whom? A woman of course!
Up early the next morning to catch the Gulflander train. It’s an historic narrow guage train that runs from Normanton to Croydon – a total of 95 miles which took a staggering (and very uncomfortable) 5.5 hours!! Shoot me now. The first hour was ok but after that it was pretty darned long and very very boring.
Oh well, at least I can say I did it.