Leaving Normanton we started heading towards the East Coast. We encountered a new type of road on this journey, a single lane of tarseal with gravel on either side. When you met someone coming towards you you both pull off to the side which creates a lot of dust and gravel being thrown at each other's vehicles. These parts of road go on for about 5 kms then you come across a normal part of road for some distance then back to the single lane. They are called Developmental Roads and we travelled over a 100k/m's of short bits of narrow then wide that they are very slowly modernising .It looks like they have been doing this for years and it looks like they have a few years of work yet to do .We ended up in Georgetown meeting up with some guys that were in a pig hunting competition. They had caught a few pigs, they are mostly black over here but they never eat them as apparently they feed on old road kill carcasses and are full of worms , yuck ! The landscape changed considerably after this with us heading towards the east coast and up onto the Atherton Tablelands which are green and lush. We ended up at a place called Ravenshoe where we camped on the local Golf course where you had use of the facilities which was good. We went for a walk then contacted some people we had met in Darwin. They were really pleased to hear from us and invited us around for a yummy cooked breakfast the next morning a change from our usual porridge. We left there and went to a National Park they recommended to see a large crater in the thick bush.On the way in we came across a young Cassowary beside a walking track. The adults can be very aggressive and we could hear a parent in the background so we were very careful. We then headed to a place called Herberton which has a very large replica historic village. It was one of the biggest displays of olden days memorabilia you could wish to see. Fantastic. We seem to be doing a lot of kms lately but as they say it's a long time between drinks out here and a lot of the small town's appear closed at times or only have tours of gorges etc that we have already seen a lot of.