Karumba to Tennant Creek



It has been a while and all due to Telstra and the stuff up they made over the last few weeks, because off the faulty modem they supplied and could not fix, the new replacement, a wrong modem twice before we received one that worked, anyway I will spare you the boring details.

Nothing on the road

On the 8th June finally left Karumba after a great time had,We moved to Normanton for 2 days as I had an infection in my left foot and it needed to be held high for a few days, so we didn't do much at all anyway I recovered and we moved on.

Road to Lawn Hill

Lawn Hill, We spent the night at Gregory downs Free camp it was here we made the decision not to take the van into Lawn hill due to the state of the road and decided to treat our selves to an overnight stay in hotel acommodation tents,
with Dinner and Breakfast included at Adels Grove, wow are we glad we did, the stay was superb the drive in and out terrible and only offroad small vans went in.
While there we had a great time superb dinner of Burramandi and then Breakfast was to much even for me but I managed, upon arrivall in the AM first day we walked a few treks and went swimming in the river, night time saw us in our tent and a great queensize bed, great sleep, next day another walk and we canoed the Gorge,and swimming at the end of it. approx 3pm we headed back to Gregory downs and picked up our van after a large cash payment of $5 and stayed on at the freecamp once more, then off to Mt Isa in the morning stayed in freecamp at TerrySmith Lookout and then the Telstra sagas, but we enjoyed our stay and visited a few things here as well, stayed for 6 days and went under ground in the Hard Times Mine, a replica of the real thing. How authentic can you get and best we have seen for a long time, went to lake Moondarra, the lookout at Mt Isa provided a great view both by day and night of the Mine and its workings. The weekend of the 19th Mt Isa had the Show and Mini Rodeo and on friday we went it was small but nice.

Telstra sent its new modem but the wrong one, so after new arrangements and shopping we got on the road again and Freecamped at Avon Downs met some people and made a fire and spend a grat evening chatting, next night freecamp Frewena with the most friendlies flies we could meet they hung around till dark.

So now we are in Tennant Creek this morning got the Modem although the wrong one it works till I speak to Telstra again as we are staying here a day or 2.
I will end and continue when we are heading north to Darwin and every place possible in between.

Bianka & Sig

Undara to Karumba


After a great 2 day stay at Undara we once again hit the Road and stopped at George Town to see the sights and especially the interesting chimney stack:

Cumberland Chimney Stack and Dam

this was used for heating the furnace that extracted Zinc etc. then stayed in a free camp Gilbert river for the night, nice camp area but dusty (Bull Dust), we climbed down a steep embankment it was worth the refreshing paddle in the water.

Next morning of to Normanton we stopped at a few places in between and had the

Biggest Morning tea at Croydon

We drove to Lake Belmore this lake is enormous and used for water sport, there is a great display of the Police Station and Jail, as it used to be in the 1800rds, visited the remnants of the Chinese Temple and its township.

Normanton dispite its name is a small town with little facilities so we decided to go on to Karumba and a good decision, we first tried the Sunset CP what a bunch of unfriendly owners, won't go into why, but booked into Kurumba point CP for 4 nights and ended up staying for 10 days.

Had a great time with the friendliest people, the Park put on various things to do, like on the Saturday evening they cook Burramandi free dinner for all tenants with a local show afterwards, what a laught.

Where our van is the group of people who come here every year and they asked us to join in all their activities, great time Bianka learned and played a game of trains its like Dominos.

Fishing is the thing to do here, every one has boats, but beach fishing is good also

many a fish is caught here and even though I only caught 1 for the period, While we were here it was great fun,
one night this week we went for fish and chips at Ash's and a beer to see the Sunset and it was beautifull what with the sun going down and warm weather.
Visited the Barramundi Farm where they breed them to release in various waterways what a great insight we even got to hand feed them they almost chop of your fingers, so fast and loud they are when they take the bait .
Friday we went to the Rodeo at Normanton
Entry was $2.- a person for Bianka and I, they also had the annual show which equates to 1% the size of the Melbourne Royal show, siting there watching the Camp Drafting belive me or not but they had approx 275 competitors for this event, and the dust boy did the car get dirty, but it was a great day.

As you can see the crocodile in Normanton chopped off Bianka's head and feasted on me, just as well it's not real.

Water Lilys and Brolgas on the road outside of Normanton

Today an easy day and it will be hard to leave here tomorow but we are of to Lawn hill.
B&S