Karumba - Nth Qld

What magnificent sunsets I enjoyed here

ah yes.....me doing the 'oh waht a feeling' we made it to Karumba,
Yippee!

....another sunset

and another
and did I mention I love taking photos of sunsets
Ok.........this is the first of my 2009 holiday journal. So o o o o o o expect to see some more 'as time goes by'.
In July my friend Maree & I set off on an 8 week holiday in 'FE FE' the camper, my nickname for the van. Our first main destination was Karumba, up in the Gulf, Nth Qld, Barramundi fishing capital, where the caravan parks are alive with fishermen from all over the country. Each morning I got up early to watch them head out in their little 'tinnies' for their big catch. It really was peak hour at sun-up out at the boat ramp with Authorities checking them as they moored. The car park was full of vehicles with empty trailers. The Barramundi can grow up to 60kg, that's one heck of a fish but usually ones caught are around 5-6 kg. I was able to feed some 'Barra' at the Discovery Centre & they suck the fish right out of your hand, one slurp & their gone as they have no teeth, thank goodness.
Plenty of croc's in the area but I didn't see any & once that sun went down I didn't like to venture down on the water edge just in case I did have an encounter with a smiling crocodile.
Temperature was 32 each day, so nice in the middle of winter, while back home a wet season was happening. Oh how I'm glad I missed that. Spent a few days here & on the last night had a bit of a jam session with our neighbours in the park, complete with dancing & singing.
We were fortunate to be given fish 2 nights running of which we cooked on the BBQ. My kids couldn't believe I ate the different fish as I'm not a big fish eater but I'm finding I can stomach some & these were all very nice including good ole favourite 'flattie' which 2 ole guys fishing for bait gave us & cleaned it & 'Pelican Pete' got the rest.
Glad we came here, even if there were thousands of km's of dry dust & long straight roads we travelled.(some really I'd call a track not a National Highway).


1 kg of prawns $12 which Maree ate on her own

Scenes of Summer

Maxine dancing to Aussie tunes

Bridport Sunrise


Early morning light on the water at Bridport

Sand sculpture on Australia Day


Check out my Aussie biscuits

New Beginnings

Da da......yep that was my intro. I've done it, made a blog. Excited, hmmm maybe........... that's just something else to occupy my time with & like I have oodles of time on my hands. I guess it's a way of keeping a journal of events of life. I enjoy everyone elses 'Blogs' so why not join 'em.