Tomorrow we are
moving onto Burketown,
on the bottom or southern end of the Gulf of Carpenteria, Escott Lodgeat Burketown, is a great little place, that has two rivers running
through the property, one is Saltwater, and the other is fresh water. so
we put our Tinnie into both, with mixed results, we caught Three nice
Yellowbelly and a few Catfish. One had to be careful there as the
Freshwater and Saltwater join at a weir, and the Saltwater Crocks have
no trouble to cross over the weir, and change their diet of Fish types,
and humans, if one is stupid to take a freshwater dip, as one two
occasions we spotted large crocs on the banks taking a siesta with one
eye open.
If you have read my First Caravan Trip East you
will know that we have been to Normanton and Karumba before, but Doug
and Lorraine haven't been there, so we decided to part company here at
Normanton,
Normanton: Worlds Largest Croc
On the Norman River FNQ
and we move onto places unseen before. We poke
around the countryside, and visit a Station that was owned by a family
member some 80 years ago, and met the current owners, and boy, were we
made welcome, we had to stay there with John and Carol Trewanton for two
days, and it was lovely, the property covered 80.000 acres of rich red
soil that they now use to breed race horses, as well as Stud Bulls.
I think the the station has changed a bit since
my ancestor owned it, they now have electricity :) Broadband Internet,
Satellite Phones, and helicopter to do the mustering.
We meet up with the other half here at Mt Moloy
where we stayed overnight at a Free Campsite, and get ready for our next
adventure into the unknown 'Cooktown' named after Captain Cooks Visit,
(He was really Lieutenant Cook then)
Today we try our hand at Crabbing, using Legal
Crab Pots with Fish / Chicken Baits, it was different as we hadn't
crabbed before. we were luck and caught 8 legal size crabs on our first
try
The wind was very strong in the Cook Harbour,
so fishing was not very successful, so we went up the Endeavour River to
fry for mangrove Jacks,, but had no luck there either, we got soaked
coming back across the Harbour as the wind was blowing at 25 kph and the
waves were high and spray was WET!!. but the new tinny took it all and
was really good
The next day were travel by 4x4 down the coast
to the Lions Den Pub, a unique Outback Pub, serving a Hippy Community.
