Today we left Karumba and headed towards Kingfisher Camp. Kingfisher Camp is around 50km east from the QLD/NT border. We travelled back through Normanton (home of the purple pub and 8m crocodile - a replica of one that was shot in the local river). We travelled west to Burketown - stopping at Burke and Wills Camp (119). The road to Burketown wasn't too bad - some corrogations initially however I think to Josh's dissapointment the road was mostly tar. From Burketo...

Yesterday we left Chillagoe and made our way to Karumba. Was 600 + km drive taking about 9 hours. We passed through the towns of Mt Surprise, Georgetown and Croydon - all three towns have a mining history though compared to what these towns would have been like in their glory days they are now just existing. We also passed through Normanton on our way. Karumba (ey karumba!) is a small town. People come here to fish - catch of the day: Barramundi. I guess the loca...

Today we spent the day looking around the Chillagoe township. We went and saw balancing rock which is a huge limestone rock which looks like it is balancing on another. We also went to the Wullamba aboriginal art site nearby. We then went on a limestone cave tour of the Trezkinn cave - absolutely amazing and beautiful. There was a stalacite formation that looked like a huge chandelier. Afterwards we went to an open cave on the outskirts of Chillegoe called The Ac...

This morning we left Atherton (interesting morning in the amenities block with some grey nomad ladies having a debate about caravan park amenity blocks and what their ideal clean is, I added some input which wasn't well received so I left them to it. I also decided that I wouldn't want to be a caravan park owner - couple of the nomads were scathing in opinion - if I did become one I'd have to drink) headed for Chillegoe. We stopped at the granite gorge nature par...

Our last day at Atherton was spent visiting Herbeton - an old tin ore mining town with four museums. We did a mine walk and saw some of the old mining sheds and shafts, we also visited the camera museum - there were cameras over 100 years old that were still producing pictures - things were definately made to last in those days. We then went to Mt Hypipamee to see the volcanic crater (its 60 metres high and 62 metres wide - above ground level -alot more is below ...