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Hi Everyone, Thank for the your previous advice. This Forum has proved to be very valuable to Mark and Myself. It has helped us along our journey. We have stayed in about 50/50 Free Camps and Caravan Parks. I never thought I would say this but.... most of the free parks have been better than the paid ones. We had a particularly bad experience with a place in Cloncurry that crammed us in like sardines. Anyway the good and bad experiences make a trip. We have made it up to Burke Town and are staying a  couple days. We hope to get some fishing done. But the wind is horrible at the moment. This town has been a nice surprise to us.  We hope to meet some of you at some time. We are in a Modcon Camper with a boat on top. It's kind of different so keep your eye out for us  and say hi if you recognise us.    Cheers  Graysen and Mark.



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Hi Graygun,
sounds like a great time, we will be in Burktown around July 28th 29th, If your looking for a nice camp{not free} try "Escott lodge" just a few Klms out of town, good camping,dog friendly,good fishing / crabing, small resturant,swimming pool
Anyway keep it safe

Cheers
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Thanks Miroju12g, If we decide to stay longer. We will check it out. We are at the Caravan park for the next two nights. Cheers.

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don't leave to much lying around as it will go walk about.

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I have not been to Burketown but have a great painting of the main street & pub in my pool room.

Must get there one day...  sigh!

 

 

edit .. added a pic of the painting ... 

ps.  I purchased it around 20 years ago from an artist on the Gold Coast.  Don't know if he had ever been there  .. but I love it.



-- Edited by Cupie on Monday 25th of June 2012 11:02:11 AM & fixed spelling error & added ps



-- Edited by Cupie on Monday 25th of June 2012 12:01:00 PM

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miroku12g wrote:

Hi Graygun,
sounds like a great time, we will be in Burktown around July 28th 29th, If your looking for a nice camp{not free} try "Escott lodge" just a few Klms out of town, good camping,dog friendly,good fishing / crabing, small resturant,swimming pool
Anyway keep it safe

Cheers
Miroku12g

 I was under the impression that Escott had been closed but my information may be unreliable and possibly out of date.



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It was closed last year when we went through

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Cupie, Your painting might be worth something . As Burketown has no pub now. It burn't down in March and hasn't been replaced as yet. It's very windy here again. So I think that is Burketown done and dusted for us. We move on tomorrow. Towards Hell's Gates. Cheers ....


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home of the Morning Glory...

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Graygun wrote:

Cupie, Your painting might be worth something . As Burketown has no pub now. It burn't down in March and hasn't been replaced as yet. It's very windy here again. So I think that is Burketown done and dusted for us. We move on tomorrow. Towards Hell's Gates. Cheers ....

 Happy travels  ..  wish I was there too. 

Bloody cold here in Brissy ... almost single figures overnight.



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Graygun,
if you have not previously been there, I recommend that you detour a bit south to visit Lawn Hill National Park. You could come south from Burketown to Gregory Downs, thence to Lawn Hill. There is a great campground at Adels Grove, but phone at this time of year to check they have space. Then you could rejoin the Savannah Way by going north through Lawn Hill Station and either Doomadgee or Kingfisher Camp/Bowthorn.

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Thanks everyone we are now in Borooloola. I would have loved to have gone to Lawn Hill and Gregory Downs. But Mark just wouldn't take the hints I was dropping. I should have been more firm....LOL>. So we did a huge drive. So hopefully another time.

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PS. Cupie that Hotel looks to be in the correct position in the street where it would have been. Thanks for Showing it.

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Please can you add the state when mentioning places. Not all of us have been around Aus just yet so are not familiar with a lot of regions. We can google place names but it would be much easier if the poster helped us out.

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Sorry, Burketown (Q) Lawnhill (Q) Gregory Downs (Q) Borooloola (NT)

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The Morning Glory looks Amazing.... ( a formation of clouds that appears around September) I think we would need to see it to believe it.



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We've seen it only once & it hadn't fully formed into the classic rollers across the sky ... but it was amazing none the less.

 

Saw a video once of a guy on para glider or similar flying down the clouds .. should have kept a copy.



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when we were there a couple got married surfing the cloud with their para gliders, the priest was on the ground talking to them with two ways.

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What was your opinion of Doomadgee? Have a friend who has just started working there with the RFDS. Flies out from Cairns each week for 3 or 4 days.



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pricey43 wrote:

What was your opinion of Doomadgee? Have a friend who has just started working there with the RFDS. Flies out from Cairns each week for 3 or 4 days.

 Your friend is in for an interesting time! Worked there for a (short) while, years ago. I would be curious to find out how your friend experiences it. At least, only coming in from Cairns for some of each week, they will get a break from the place.

Things I remember most: never getting an unbroken night's sleep because we had a "party house" over the road; having to pay heaps for groceries - and a very limited selection it was too; despairing at the seemingly insurmountable problems that existed in the community.



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