Nov 1, 2012 - Georgetown to Karumba

Happy birthday to me. Getting talking to the grey nomads last night Marc suggests we head for karumba. It's a spot right in the gulf of carpentia and is the other side of the pointy bit at the top. Today we drive and see nothing but a few cows again wandering everywhere including on the road. The future we drive the less we see and it's funny because we start to feel like we are in the outback. There is however beautiful birds of prey and its a shame that Joshie can't watch them out his window because they fly away too fast as we get near...

Sep 19, 2012 - Karumba: Gulf of Carpentaria

Karumba Queensand 19 - 22 Sept 2012 Karumba is a small town in the Gulf of Carpentaria, Nth Queensland and is known for its great fishing & more importantly delicious prawns, so we were keen to get there and taste some of its delicacies. We polished off 2kgs of prawns on our 1st night and were not disappointed! Jesse and Sean were keen to test the waters and headed out on a ½ day fishing charter. Unfortunately the wind picked up the day we arrived which cooled things down but meant the fish weren’t biting. They caught enough to feed the...

Aug 25, 2012 - Cumberland Chimney to Karumba

On out way to Normanton we passed through Croydon, hadn't planned to stop until we noticed a bit of a historical area with signs saying 'open' and 'free'. What a feet little town, we stopped and looked through a few old buildings and listened to an old court case. Arriving in Normanton fairly early in the day we pulled in and had lunch at one of the pubs (not the famous purple one). Then thought we might as well travel the extra 70kms out to Karumba and spend the night there. We hadn't booked and heard it might be tricky to get a spot. Two...

Oct 27, 2011 - Karumba - Oct 24-27

Well, we have been there - on to the coast at the Gulf of Carpentaria, at Karumba. Very, very humid (was 100% at 0730 when we left this morning!!) and pretty warm - very little to see in Karumba (a good butcher, though!!) and we were very happy with the Park we stayed in out on the point. The sunsets were spectacular, similar to those seen in Broome - nice to see the sun setting over the ocean once more!! Off down to Normanton for a look at the Gulflander train, a brunch stop at the Burke and Wills Roadhouse, and then it is on to Cloncurry...

Jul 1, 2011 - Karumba (1st - 3rd)

Friday, 1 July - overcast/sunny OFFICIAL TODAY: we have travelled 4,000.6k, driving for 59hrs 57mins A sleepin till 7am this morning LOL...and on the road again ... Going to be a hottie as at 8am it was 20 degrees...but WOW what magic sunrises here! We know we are in far north Qld cause the landscape is just miles & miles of flat bush as far as the eye can see. Passed a property where the front gate read - "36k to homestead" LOL We travel on to Normanton,where we met Krys the Savanah King Croc. Krys is a reproduction of the original croc...

Oct 29, 2010 - Karumba

Karumba – 4 October to 11 October (7 nights) The 453km drive from Cloncurry to Karumba was a really long slog, with boring cattle station country to be seen most of the way. The country roads in Queensland are not good. They are really bumpy and there are long stretches of single lane bitumen with badly crumbling edges. This means that when another vehicle approaches you have to move over to the left, so that 2 wheels are on the dirt – not so bad for a car, but when pulling a van it gets a little tricky. I also found out the hard way that...

Jul 19, 2010 - Mount Surprise

Thurs, 15th July. Now Thursday and are still out of range of Optus signal. Will write up my blog and post it when we are able to do so. On Tuesday we left Gilbert’s c/p at Cloncurry by 8am just ahead of several others on the way to the Gulf. After a few hours on a very good road with little traffic we reached the Burke & Will Roadhouse to stretch our legs and have a look at the outpost. The Roadhouse can be used as a stopover to break the journey to Karumba into two days but the conditions today were brilliant and we didn’t have to do...

Jul 11, 2010 - to the gulf

hi folks, we had a good rest at longreach. it was good to recharge our batteries. we have done some miles now. we are in the gulf. we went from longreach to winton. there was a outdoor opal market. it was really intresting. didn't buy any but there was some beauties there. on from there to a free stop north of mckinlay. poor bronson has got the sorest paws. he doesn't want to walk anywhere. he liked the free stop because it had soft ground. we moved on from thereto cloncurry. i thought the town would be large but it was only small. we...

Jul 8, 2010 - Karumba

We really enjoyed our stay at Karumba. The day we arrived we hadn’t even set up camp and a man walked over to us and asked if Pete liked fishing, he said yes and within half an hour Pete was out fishing in a boat. How lucky was that. He went fishing every day except for the last one, he caught fish and I just relaxed, relaxed and did some more relaxing. I played Bingo at a neighbouring caravan park and won two games and thought they were going to run me out of town. I was worried about winning a third game. They take their Bingo pretty...

Jun 28, 2010 - Karumba

To end our outback experience we ventured to Karumba to view the sunset over the ocean and have dinner at the Sunset Tavern. Karumba is officially known as the outback by the sea. The food at the Tavern was exceptionally good, especially the barramundi and Trevor at last had his Georgetown bangers and mash, which Trevor had been hanging out for. If you are not into fishing don’t go to Karumba as there is nothing else there to do, you can’t even go swimming in the sea as there is a good chance you will have crocs as company. The sunset was...

Jun 25, 2010 - Karumba

Karumba…. What can I say about Karumba? If you don’t like fishing don’t bother coming…. Hasn’t changed much since we were last here, packed into the van parks like the proverbial sardines with presumably the same scenario each morning “HEY GEORGE HAVE YOU PUT THE MOTOR ON? Clang bang thump, Right George I’ll throw the anchor in to….” All at full volume at approx 0400… We stayed only to view the sunset and end our outback experience with a meal at the Sunset Tavern, then drove back into Normanton for a quenching ale at the Purple Pub…

Aug 24, 2009 - Day 34 – Kurumba point - Kurumba style

This update will be done in true Karumba style – laid back! - Got up went to feed big fish (Barramundi Discovery centre) - Lunch – More prawns @ $12 a kilo - Lazy afternoon in pool - Sunset cruise on the gulf with (more) prawns, wine and nibbles supplied. - Saw a croc and a stunning sunset - Sat out under the stars until time to fall asleep This place is 5-600kms from civilisation but it’s really worth getting here. The boat crew tonight had moved from Merimbula on the NSW south coast because it had become “too developed” and Karumba felt...