Day 1 - 27th Aug A little back tracking today, we are heading south west to Lawn Hill National Park. This was a fairly uninteresting drive through the large cattle properties of northern QLD. We stopped at Gregory Down for a counter meal at the pub. Three chicken schnitzels with salad and one calamari with salad plus beer and we were on our way again. We arrived at Lawn Hill campsite mid-afternoon and went to the Ranger Station to organise sites for the night....

Karumba 23-26 August Before leaving Burketown a quick wash of the vehicles was in order. Some of the red dust had to go. A relatively easy drive today in the order of 200kms. Passing through Normanton hoping to find a supermarket which seems to be non-existent up this end of Aus. A fuel stop, then off to Karumba. We booked into Karumba Point Tourist Park for a couple of nights after studying the reviews on Wiki camps. We were led to our site by the owner which ...

We had no trouble deciding to leave Borroloola this morning as 1: The park was a bit creepy and 2: We needed BEER!! We phoned ahead to Burketown in Queensland to check if they had sites in the caravan park and also to find out if their town had any alcohol restrictions. Luckily for us they had a pub with no restrictions. We crossed the border into Queensland (the 6th state/territory that we've visited this trip). Col was leading today and we sa...

The next morning we headed out on one of the many 4WD tracks on the Station to do some exploring. Half way along the single lane sand track the scrub opened up to a huge dirt freeway. It was a haul road for the mining trucks from the iron ore mine. After an hour we pulled up at a place called Nannys retreat. This was a beautiful little gorge with pristine water flowing through it. Yes I know, how boring, we have seen far too many beautiful gorges. We swam and coo...

Woke to a beautiful morning on the Towns River. Not a breath of wind and fish activity everywhere, so Joe and I had to throw a lure in the water. No takers but Joe did catch four fish in the bait trap. So one of the little fish went out as live bait, again no takers. It was soon time to pack up again to move onto a place called Lorella Springs. On the way we stopped off at Butterfly Gorge. With a little imagination the place looked spectacular, the only things ...