We're offSept 25 Sydney (Beahces)Sept 26 Sydney (walking tour)Sept 27 Flight to Brisbane28Sept SPACESHIPSept 29th KillarneySept 30th Killarney to Glen Innes1Oct Glenn Inns to Warren2Oct Warren to White Cliffs3Oct White Cliffs to Broken Hill4Oct Broken Hill to Flinders Rangers5Oct – Flinders RangersOct 6 – Flinders to Port Augusta7 Oct - Port Augusta to Coober Pedy7Oct - What have we learnt so far…7Oct - Next up8 Oct – Coober Pedy to Mt Ebenezer9 Oct Mt Ebenezer to Yulara10 Oct Ayers Rock to Alice Springs11 Oct Alice Springs to Tennant Creek.12 Oct Tennant Creek to CloncurryOct 13 Cloncurry to Karumba14 Oct Karumba to Ravenshoe15 Oct Ravenshoe to Yungaburra16 Oct Yungaburra to Cairns (Palm Cove)17 Oct Palm Cove to Port Douglas18 Oct Port Douglas to Newell Beach19 Oct Newell Beach to CairnsOct 20 Cairns to Bingal Bay (Mission Beach)Oct 21 Bingal Bay (Mission Beach)Oct 22 Bingal Bay (Mission Beach)Oct 23 Bingal Bay - InghamOct 24 Ingham - Home HillOct 25 Home Hill to ProserpineOct 26 Proserpine to RockhamptonOct 27 Rockhampton to 1770Oct 28 1770Oct 29 1770 to Bundaburg (Burnett Heads)Oct 30 Burnett Heads – Tin Can BayOct 31 TinCan Bay to Rainbow beachNov 1 Rainbow beach to CaloundraNov 2 Caloundra to Main armNov 3 Main arm to Byron BayNov 4 Byron Bay to WooliNov 5 WooliNov 6 Wolli to BerrimaBerrima to Eltham (Melbourne)Nov 8 - 22 Eltham (Melbourne)nov 23 Eltham to Ballaratnov 24 Ballarat to Mt GambierNov 25 Mt Gambier to PortlandNov 26 Portland to Port CampbellNov 27 Port Campbell to LorneNov 28 Lorne to JanJucNov 29 Jan Juc to CoolendinaDec 3 Coolendina to Ryenov 30 to Dec 2 Surf Coast
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Karumba, Australia
This morning we bid farewell to our friends and travel companions “Les Afwicains.” They were headed east towards Townsville and we were headed north to Karumba before going east to Cairns. We exchanged e-mail and blog info and headed our separate ways.
As you know there are no radio stations here but if there were I swear it would be Robin Williams in Good Morning Vietnam doing the weather saying “it’s hot! DAMN Hot!”
Anyhoo, as per the Kiwi’s suggestion we travelled up to Karumba “where the population is small and we love them all” The big attractions here are the sunset over the Gulf of Carpantaria and Barramundi fish and chips. We decided to combine the two for our delayed anniversary celebration.
We headed to a “world famous” fish and chip stand then settled in on the beach at a safe distance form the crocodiles and tore into our romantic meal as we waited for the sun to set on the gulf.
I was enjoying a mouthful of barramundi while another awaited its fate when a crazed falcon came swooping down and grabbed the piece of fish straight from my hand! I of course yelled for dear life while Marc-André jumped to his feet, trying aimlessly to figure out what the hell had happened. Wild eyed I pointed at the sky “bird, bird” was all I could muster feeling the space where his claws has dragged against my skin. “Où?” was all I got in return. “UP! Straight up!” “Ohlé *&#$” I believe was his response when he finally saw the bird hovering above us waiting for another morsel of fish to go unguarded.
By now another traveler who was obviously waiting for the sun with a professional looking camera had heard the commotion and came running over probably thinking some crazed lunatic was being eaten by croc. The tree of us laughed it of while we covered the food with a backpack only retrieving bit sized pieces of fish and chips from then on. The bird never left our side and he even called two of friends to let them know about the tasty snack.
After that ordeal we walked the beach, poked at some dead jelly fish and found a good spot to take pictures of the sunset. A couple arrived with a guitar which created a nice ambiance for the grand event.
3000 pictures later, the sun was warming another side of the earth while we harassed poor innocent hermit crabs until darkness settled in and we headed back to our campsite.
Hermit crabs are so funny. If you stand very still they all walk around and it looks like the ground is alive, then you make one little sound and everything stops no more clicking of shell to rock, just silence.
The heat was unbearable so we snuck into the pool, which was closed for the night, to try and cool off. On our way back to the van we noticed mango, coconut and lime trees. The limes were within reach so naturally we helped ourselves to ½ a dozen. Unfortunately the mangos and coconuts were just too damned high.
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