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Karumba Slideshow
Karumba
Travel Blogs from Karumba, Australia
Big Things #27
Krys The Savannah King, the Big Crocodile in Normanton, Queensland is meant to be an actual sized model of a saltwater croc that was shot and killed near the area. Still, he's big enough for the obligatory Look At Me, I've Got My Head In A Crocodile's ...
Normanton
... , besides the Gulflander which we didn’t do. On the first night, we had dinner at some hotel/pub, which wasn’t too bad. We passed going to Purple Pub, which had all blueish/purpleish lights. On the second day we just drove straight to ...
Burketown
We stayed in Burketown for one night,The caravan park was called Burketown caravan park.It didn't have a pool but it had a pool out of the caravan park but the pool was locked so we had a shower. Burketown was not too good and Victor got fixed by Mudgie, ...
Day 19 - Karumba
Routine was similar to yesterday. Greg spent most of the morning down the beach. Jan had a bit of a bake on the beach (not sure if we are allowed to publish that?). Geoff and Linda also came down for a while. We didn't catch much except for a small ...
Across the Gulf
Upon leaving central Australia, we realised we were running out of time (& money!). Only about 4 weeks left! We planned to hightail it up to Normanton/Kurumba; gulf country. We did overnight camps at The Pebbles (just outside Tennant ...
Reprezentacja kangurow w pilke nozna
Az chce sie zakrzyknac: Karamba! Tak tu jest goraco i wilgotno. Marian caly sie szkli na twarzy, mloda co prawda spala w nocy ale byla tak mokra, ze jej pizame mozna bylo wykrecac. Ja mam wrazenie ze jestem w raju :) Mimo tych nowych dla nas warunkow ...
Savanna Way
logbuch des Captain Wir schreiben den 17. Oktober im Jahre 2011 Morgens 6 Uhr, übler juckreitz weckt mich. Kleine schwarze Insekten schwirren in meinem Zelt. Zuerst Angst Flöhe bekommen zu haben. Kurze Zeit später böses Erwachen, ich habe Sandflys ...
A fishing mecca
... to stay if we thought we had a lot more time to spare. We stopped briefly in Normanton to book accommodation in Karumba Point. Karumba is pretty small and there are people that have been here for the last four months for the good barramundi fishing ...
Fishing
We spent the morning fishing in Karumba, bit more successful but didn't manage to catch anything for dinner! Ben bought a live bait trap and managed to catch an eel in it! We thought it was a snake at first so were quite relieved when it turned out to be ...
Outback by the Sea
... straight for the town to have a look round. Karumba use to be a fuelling station for airships coming from Britain to Australia, stopping here to fill up before flying on to Sydney. The town is now famous for its Trawlers that bring in the ...
Znowu w krainie krokodylii
Zanim rano zebralismy sie i ruszylismy w droge sprawdzilam raporty o stanie drog i pogode. Okazalo sie, ze od wczoraj wieczorem plona trawy przy drodze ktora bedziemy dzisiaj jechali. Pozar byl dosyc intensywny i zatrzymal cysterny z paliwem przez wiele ...
Karumba… Outback by the sea
This is a top pick! ... road trains lined up out the front all loaded with cattle, just one of those quintessential sights you conjure up when thinking of outback Australia. In the heat of the day as we sat at a rest stop enjoying our lunch (along with numerous flies); we ...
Karumba
Only 70km today, the terrain was full of salt pans containing large grey flamingoes with red heads, intermingled with huge storks and lots of other birds. The sunsethere was incredible. It's one of the only places in Queensland where the sun sets ...
Day 20 - Burke & Wills Roadhouse
... time with Geoff & Linda and particularly the last night when we had a fish down on the river. We filled up the car in Karumba town ($1.43 / ltr) and headed south. We stopped in Normanton to have a look at what was left of the old jetty. There used to ...
Ay Karumba!
Aaayyeee Karumba! We drove from Normanton to Karumba as a day trip. In Karumba we had lunch at the world famous `Ash's Café and Fish 'n’ Chip shop` and had the best barramundi and chips so far. We went to the pub for a drink, and we were all very ...
What's the story Morning Glory?
... . One of the best classes I have taken at WWU, I was intrigued by this cloud and reasoned that if I was touring Australia I better have a go at witnessing this unique feat of atmospheric science. The cloud usually rolls thorough town at around 5:00 in the ...
Blue Mountains
Taking a break from Sydney we caught the train to Karumba, a town in the Blue Mountains, for a day's exploring. There was a lot to see and the hop on buses and cable cars made it easy to visit the valleys, mines and rainforest. Worth seeing were The Three ...
The longest week of our lives stuck in Normanton!!
Sunday morning we pack up our tent and we're hoping the girls van will make it to Cairns... except our car won't start!! Well we eventually got it started but there's a really loud clunking noise coming from the engine... not good news. We manage to ...
Day 18 - Karumba
We could get to like the lifestyle up here at Karumba. Very leisurely. Feels a bit like Leeman where we lived in WA with lots of houses with boats and fishing gear spread about. Greg went for a fish down in the river near the boat ramp for most of the ...
nornanton
stayed at an amazing campsite that had been completely surrounded by flood water the week before, massive swimming ...
Birthday Blog - The Outback
... birthday was much better. (I had 2 birthdays because we are 10 hours ahead here.) We rolled up at the Gulf of Carpenteria (Karumba) after many hours of driving. We went to a local restaurant and had barramundi and chips. Wonderful! It is a locally caught ...
Sunset and Beer!
We headed onto Normanton this morning and stopped off for lunch, the visitor centre recommended headed onto Karumba (Aye!!), for it's fantastic sunsets and a great pub!! We didn’t need anymore persuading and headed on there. Managed to get a spot in ...
Big Things #28
The Big Barra, Normanton, Queensland. The one that got away after it beat you up and nicked your ...
Day 17 - Karumba
Had a nice easy run up to Normanton and then on to Karumba today. Actually the road was extremely good all the way and no single lane or dirt road to contend with. There were no hills and the country was low scrub most of the way but just out ...
Georgetown
... Tonight we have booked into a campsite in Georgetown, which surprisingly does not have a map pin so I have headed the page as karumba again.The town is about halfway between Normanton and Cairns. We stocked up with VB and spent the evenig talking to a ...