Day 11 Wednesday 2nd July Normanton to Croydon to Normanton! This morning we went on a train! We climbed aboard the legendary Gulflander, originally built to connect the once bustling port of Normanton to the rich gold fields of Croydon, some 90 miles to the east. Today the Gulflander is a tourist/ mail train. This Normanton - Croydon-Normanton track was never connected to the main rail of Queensland, and is often referred to as the 'train to nowhere'! This i...

Day 10 Tuesday 1st July Lawn Hill (Boodjamulla) NP to Normanton (400km) It was even colder this morning...we don't like it!! We were packed up and on the road by 7.55am! The road was quite bad for most of the way to Gregory Downs, although the the last 17 km was sealed. We had to wait until then for our coffee because a roadside stop on the gravel section would have been unpleasant......it was windy and dust was blowing around......and it would have been wors...