Karumba

We had heard that Karumba was teaming with people, well, mainly a certain type of people, fisho’s!!  It is the place that all the oldies go when they’ve died and gone to fishing heaven.  It’s chocka’s for months apparently.  We had also heard of a fantastic caravan park out of town, on Karumba Point, called the Sunset Caravan Park.  This park complimented the Sunset Tavern, where you can sit outside, have a beer, and watch a pretty impressive sunset.

We had rung the caravan park whilst in Cairns, and it was totally booked out for about 2 weeks solid.  Not to be deterred, Glenn rang again while driving into town.  The waters parted, sun shone, and a cancellation meant that we were in!!

A coffee, some pies, milk, and a play at the playground saw us ‘do’ Karumba downtown.  We then headed out to Karumba point, and slotted into our golden spot at the caravan park.  Nice place, tidy, near the beach, and definitely full of a lot of people, but not too overcrowded thankfully.  There was a distinct odour of fish around, especially near the toilets and the fish cleaning area.  Seemed that everyone had a boat, and the topic of convo was all about the fishing. 

The girls tried their ritual swim in the pool, and again, for some strange reason, the pool was about -10 degree’s.  Amazing that this far north they run their pool water through an icebox.  Figure it must be for safety to keep the crocs out (who I guess don’t like cold water).  10 minutes saw them blue, shivering, and done.

Glenn had tried to organise for the back window to be fixed either in Karumba or Normanton.  As it turns out, the nearest place was 550kms away, and they don’t travel.  A few discussions later resulted in us having to wait until we got to Katherine in NT, rather than wait around at Fisho’s retreat for a week.  Shouldn’t be too problematic, after all, we’ve only got 900ish kms of dirt road to do to get there!!

A shower and cleanup then saw us walking to the Tavern up the road.  This pub is right on the beach, lovely indoor area, but more spectacularly, a large outdoor sitting area with table and chairs.  The food was pretty standard pub food, but it wasn’t about the food, it was about the beer and the sunset.  Right on time, the sky lit up, and the colours formed, and we ohhhh’ed and arrrr’ed with everyone else as the sun dipped below the sea.  Very impressive, and we could definitely have settled in for a session if the kids weren’t hanging off us.  Lovely little cherubs!!!