The drive along the Savannah Highway is very interesting,the landscape does vary. Many of the towns are very small but we did stop at a larger place Croydon for lunch. It was a gold rush town in the 1890s and the information centre had an excellent small museum and outside were many old machinery parts. It was pretty hot here,over 30 deg and we had lunch in the shade opposite the old pub.
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Croydon
We drove over 400kms all the way to Normanton which is at the bottom of the York Pennisula and not far from the Gulf of Carpentaria. It has incredibly wide streets and is really in saltie croc country. They often have big floods in the wet season and get cut off. The information centre was again amazing museum this time it was housed in the first Burns and Philp Trading Companyin Australia. We had a great camp by the Norman river which we stayed well back from(you can't be too sure). We enjoyed a nice evening with another couple who camped by us. Jan was a teacher from Adelaide on 2 terms leave and Glenn was a diesel mechanic now truck driver so we had lots to chat about.
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