Friday, June 29, 2012

Hello Roadtrains on the long awaited Savannah Way


June 25 & 26: 
We took 2 days to travel from Malanda to Karumba on the Savannah Way.
Had a picnic lunch at Mt Surprise, then stopped for the night at the Midway Caravan Park in Georgetown, where Inidgo made friends with Pauline pictured left. 
We walked down the road to the local pub for dinner:  Danny had the snags and I had crumbed fish that tasted like fish fingers.  Who cares when you are tired and hungry but eh?


The next day we stopped off at a historical chimney left over from...who knows what. Then we passed through Croydon, with another nice old pub.
We tried to camp at at Wal's Camp near the Norman River, but it was booked out, so we just stopped on the bumpy access road for lunch.
Looked like croc territory to Danny, so we got the hell out soon after.
We fueled up at Normanton, but it didn't look like the sort of place we wanted to stay at. 

We came across a few road trains and Danny did the right thing and slowed down and got off the road to let them pass.  Sometimes the road was only 1 vehicle wide, with red dirt on either side.
We arrived at Karumba in the afternoon and booked into the Gulf Country Caravan Park.
But Sammy was not happy.

Was coming to Karumba a big mistake?






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