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BURKE and WILLS ROADHOUSE
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Day 17
Friday 26th August 2005 Click on the pictures for larger versions
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After the usual packing up, cleaning the campsite and making sure the
caravan was connected securely we left Gregory River. I really
enjoyed our stay. The greenery of the river surrounds soon was just a
memory as we headed east, past the Leichhardt River, back over
our tracks towards Burke and Wills Roadhouse. Making headway was very slow as we were driving into a stiff wind. Minutes turned into hours as we made our way past Burke and Wills Roadhouse and headed north towards Normanton. |
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Around halfway between
Burke and Wills Roadhouse and Normanton we stopped at a
roadside rest area - a shelter with a table under - and had lunch with
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As it was getting late in the afternoon when we approached the Normanton area, I decided we'd book into the camping spot we had picked from the Camps Australia 3 book - Leichhardt's Lagoon. It was some 18km out of Normanton on the road to Georgetown but the name attracted me for some reason. As it turned out, for a commercial campsite, it was in keeping with our idea of camping. We were getting short on fuel so I decided to drive past the Georgetown intersection and go on into Normanton. The service station attendant gave us info about the town including where the local library was located. He said we could find a lot about the town there. We drove through town and
visited the library. As we looked through the brochures I noticed they
had computers for use for Internet. On the way out Judy noticed a
Butcher Shop she'd been to on her previous visit. We went in and
after a LOT of chatting we walked out with "tea/dinner", some beautiful
fresh steak and sausages. We left town and drove out to Leichhardt's Lagoon to book in. It was basically a paddock surrounding a tree lined lagoon. We drove in and saw a lot of caravans nestled under the trees. The "best" spots were taken but it still looked inviting. We drove up to the manager's office and were welcomed by a friendly woman who pointed out where we could setup and what amenities there were. After chatting to her about where we had come from, to our amazement we found she and her husband were "babysitting" the park and were from Nanango! As the sun set we set our site up and settled in for the night. |
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