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During our brief overnight stop in Croydon we were fortunate enough to meet Sarah Marquis who, believe it or not, has WALKED all the way from Siberia. She said that Australia was warmer than her home town where it gets down to MINUS FORTY FIVE. Check out her web site at www.sarahmarquis.ch if you don't believe me.
Everything that Sarah needs is in here somewhere.
What a courageous woman!
Could this REALLY be the "Oldest General Store in Australia" - still trading. The sign outside says it is!
Now this could be the highest quality butcher in Croydon. This I can believe ...... it's the ONLY one I could see.
This sign at the Club Hotel caught my attention.
We thought we would just wait here until tomorrow.
After we left Croydon and headed towards Normanton we noticed a camp area listed in "Camps 6" and called Leichhardt Lagoon. It was 25 kilometers from Normanton. It sounded like a nice name and although we have been fooled by the name before, we gave it a try. What a pleasant surprise!
The caretaker tried to give us a dry and dusty patch in which to set up camp but Connie wouldn't have it. We wondered a little further round the camp and found some great spots. This is where we settled for two days.
The first to welcome us were the birds including ducks, geese, swans, and a whole heap of noisy ones.
The rest of them stayed in the shadows until late at night. Have you ever gone out into the dark to take a pee and heard a loud rustling noise behind you in the scrub . ! . !
Of course a quick run up the road to Normanton was necessary (No! not for a pee).
But the price of everything was a bit over the top. I didn't refresh my supply of Tooheys New beer. I didn't even take a photo of the HUGE concrete crocodile in the main street - even though it seems to be the only thing of interest left in the town.
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