74 - Normaton / Burke & Wills Road House

Left Karumba, late as usual, and headed for Normaton. Well you have to go through Normaton, no choice really. Our bee line was for the Burke & Wills Road House, over night there anbd then onto Lawn Hill National Park ( Adels Grove)

So of course we had to take some photies of the big croc at Normaton.

The bride had to do put the head in the croc's mouth

Now that's some croc

That is about the size of the croc that got me at O'Briens Creek

The Val & The RetroLiner @ Normaton

We had to make a decision at Normaton, as we were a little keen to back track to Croydon for the Podgy Dodgy festival that was coming up. I also wanted to camp at Leichhard Lagoon as well, which is on the road back, but new pathways were in order........so off to Adels Grove....well that's the plan.

So two hours later in the scorching heat we arrived at the Burke & Wills Road House....which was in the middle of no where. We had been talking to the managers there by email for a little while about next season work, so while we had a burger we spoke to Julie (the manager), more of a social chat really............nice lady.

Anyway we decided to stay the night, and then head to Gregory Downs next day. So we set up camp, and of course met a million other campers and then it was happy hourrrrrrrs.

Burke & Wills Road House

All lined up at B & W

So what do you do on a hot afternoon....sit around and drink lotsa grog with other campers

Now that's a road train

The Burke & Wills Road House is the only fuel stop between Cloncurry & Normaton, and everybody stops there. More on Burke & Wills sooooooon.