Normanton Park Hotel

... gulf when we drove passed vast swampy areas with tall Brolga birds wading around in search of a feed. Then we reached Normanton - a sleepy outback town which has almost forgotten it‘s colourful period in history from when it began as a small ...

... out, not very good and too many old cows (as Mum calls them) COOPERS AMAZING FACT: 70kms down the road from Karumba in Normanton is a statue of the biggest croc ever shot in Australia at 8.5mts long. COHEN AND JUDES BIG THINGS: We saw the BIG barra, ...

... and covered with beautiful water lilies. The Savannah Way brought us to the Etheridge Shire, a total of 394 kms from Normanton to Mt Surprise. Intense volcanic activity has endowed this shire with many rare gifts of nature and Georgetown is the ...

... RARE to say the least to see any and i feel like a right minoirty, but in Bangkok it was like i was walking down Normanton Road or something (Those from Derby reading this will know what Normo Road is- anyone who doesn't maybe have look on google) which ...

... layers of the different lava flows which followed the river bed,  It was pretty interesting. 11 July - Undara - Walker Creek *near Normanton QLD Today we did a bush walk up to Kalkani Volcano crater rim, it was steep and hot we walked all the way ...

... war es dort aber tagsueber zu einsam und einkaufsmoeglichkeiten gibt es auch nicht, also haben wir abgelehnt und sind weitergefahren nach normanton, auf einer strasse, die so breit war, wie ein asphaltierter feldweg. das waere ja nicht so wild, wenn dort ...

... still unsure as to which way we would travel from Camooweal. We were very keen to drive up to Lawn Hill National Park and then onto Normanton and Karumba before arriving on the East Coast in Cairns. We were going to have to rely on local knowledge with ...

... infront of the bus and a shot of me and M standing on the bull bars on the front of the bus. Late afternoon we arrived in Normanton which only has one claim to fame and that's the absolute outright lie that a 8m croc was shot there in 1957, they've built ...

After leaving Karumba we stopped in at the nearby town of Normanton to see a life size replica of a crocodile which was shot dead in 1957. Named Krys, the crocodile measured a staggering 8.63 metres in length and had a girth of 4 metres, not one you'd ...

... at 6!!! Back on the road we stopped for lunch at Cloncurry and then turned off The Barkly Highway (consolation for missing Normanton/Karumba and Cairns)for McKinlay for afternoon snacks at its famous Walkabout Hotel. This pub was really clean and with a ...

... at this point. Perhaps it was 'cos we had resumed travel on proper roads, which quickly took us on a slight diversion to Normanton, as close to the gulf of Carpentaria as we were going to get. This little town features a garish all-purple pub and a tacky ...