Normanton, Karumba & onwards.

Lily Lagoon just our of Normanton – glorious & lotz of birdlife especially magpie geese, we camped up at Normanton for 1 night in a caravan park, drove out to Karumba for an early dinner & back to camp. Karumba is a beautiful little town known for its awesome sunsets, lotz of wallabies on the road & saw a few black cockies on a small water hole.

Drove out to Riverside Camp, a free camp on the Einasleigh River located on the Gregory Development Road – WOW! what an awesome camping spot. On the track to the river we passed a dead pig which a wedgetail eagle was feasting on but when we got close he flew to a tree – not a bad looking specimen. We parked up about 15mt from the waters edge, put 4 redclaw pots in, lit a camp fire, cooked dinner & toasted our amazing camp. Next morning we checked the pots, only got 7 yabbies but good sizes, we tried fishing with no joy but it was still a lovely spot. Julie & Danny cousins from Mirriwinni arrived after 2 sleeps, Peter & I put the little boat together so Danny & him could position some redclaw pots in good spots. Of course the ‘battle of the 500’s’ took place quite often, a very enjoyable time, but the contest even though a tug-of-war at times resulted in the “girls” favour……….again. Thanks Danny & Julie for a wonderful time.

The birdlife was good, parrots, ducks, honey eaters, plovers, shags, doves & kite hawks were some of the species we saw. We did see 2 freshwater crocodiles but that did not deter us from our twice daily dip(very fresh water).

Found a few pretty flowers but they were weeds, still pretty.