After leaving an overnight stop at Burke and Wills Roadhouse, we travelled through to Cloncury. It was a friday and all the shops were shut!! We tried to find anything open but it turned out it was a public holdiay for the Cloncurry people for show day. It was so funny as there were about 50 caravans driving round and round the town all looking for supplies lol. If they had been open we may have stayed a couple of days but moved on to Mt Isa instead. The t...

Again, after talking to other campers, we decided to spend a couple of days at Karumba, north of Normanton. I was a bit concerned as we have a lot of ground to cover before we are due in Carnarvon WA. Allen assured me we can spare the time. Queensland had a long weekend and all the shops were shut. We were recommended to stay behind a service station as it was a smaller camp ground with great facilities and reasonably priced. It turned out to be great - righ...

After speaking with Bev and Ray, we decided we would spend a couple of days in Normanton. Ray said he was catching large redclaw crayfish there and we believed him. Well he might have got them but we certainly didnt! We only managed about 5 and they were pretty average in size but we enjoyed them anyway. Allen played a game of bowls in Normanton and as usual, cleaned up. He has been bowling really well lately and is happy with his game. We did a tour of th...

Well we are finally heading west and travelled a couple of hundred kilometres yesterday and decided to stop the night at Mt Surprise. We inadvertenly drove into a caravan park that was not the one we were intending to book into. We thought we might meet our friends that travelled with us for a couple of months recently, Ray and Bev, so we asked at the park we inadvertently stopped at and what do you know, they were there. They said they we supposed to have lef...

On the hunt for more redclaw crayfish, we headed to Yungaburra on Lake Tinaroo. The caravan park was right on the lake side and Allen took the boat off the car and loaded it with nets to set them for our catch. Day 1....nothing. Day 2......five. Day 3......a few tiny ones. Oh well pack the boat up and load the van and we will try somewhere else. While the nets are out on the lake we toured the area. There is a Platypus viewing area where ususally you can s...