All wanted to see the Gulf of Carpentaria so we trekked the 80 kilometers from Normanton to Karumba knowing that we had to take the same way back. The road was actually quite nice, no single lane parts, no road trains, plenty of road kill, sandy planes with real dust storms, fields with endless dry grass and then we were in Karumba, city of boats. Everyone has one.
We saw some conspicuous petrol station and went past it and had a look at the ocean. A bit of a surprise. Not only is the beach made up of large slabs of stone formed by crusted shells, but also the ocean did a runner. Nothing but mud as far as the eye can see.
The channel is the only part that allows the fishers to come in at low tide and even at high tide there can’t be much water close to shore.
Also we saw that back burning is universal throughout Australia although we noticed that in Queensland they don’t control it at all; they probably never heard of Black Sunday.
Posted from Three Rivers, Queensland, Australia.
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