We left the unique O’Brien’s Campground this morning and we have reached our 16 000 kilometre mark. All of this has been done in the car, and most of it with the van but we’ve been unhooking it a fair bit so we can explore unencumbered. Max and Harry cheered loudly at Trevor’s “sixteen thousand k’s” announcement.
We saw lots of wallabies when leaving O’Brien’s this morning – something pretty unusual.
We had lunch in Georgetown which has a great set up. The town has built a gorgeous pool which is fully landscaped and fenced. They don’t have anyone working there, but instead ask people to pick up a key from the servo or shire offices and they can use in during long opening times. There is an automatic pool cleaner and also a lush park to have picnics. It’s a beautiful area and was being used while we were there.
Something we thought funny was encountering cattle grids on the highway! We expect we’ll see a lot more of these.
When we drove through the town of Croyden we saw what they claimed was ‘Australia’s Oldest General Store’.
It took a long drive to get to Normanton, but then we decided to go to a free camp that is almost at Carumba. We wanted to go to Carumba tomorrow as it is famous for its prawns, caught in the Gulf of Carpenteria.
But we didn’t get there.
We arrived at the free camp and as always the kids started bike riding, I started chatting to the other campers and Trevor started setting up the caravan. But the caravan didn’t go up on two corners. A few old guys from around came to help, and Trevor tried to get it up in every way possible. The caravan lid is really, really heavy and took four men straining to raise it just a little.
After a while we decided to pack up what we already had out and drive back to Normanton to find somewhere to stay.
The lovely Foodworks lady said that our only choices were one of the two pubs or the caravan park, so we chose the park. We drove it around 7pm and booked into a bungalow for the night. For $90 we got a longish room with a bunk bed, a single bed, a double bed and some basic kitchen facilities. Toilet facilities were outside and it all is pretty grotty. $90!! It is a big ripoff! The people staying here are lovely but it hasn’t been a brilliant night.
There’s nothing we can do until we ring Coromal the caravan people tomorrow, so we all had 5 minute noodles for tea and will be in bed soon.
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