17.08.07

CROYDON

Had rain through the night which caused us to get up and put pegs into the annexe, not very much but it was quite cool and windy all day.

Stopped off at Normanton at the library where we checked email etc in the old Burns Philp building, very old timber framed galvanised building with lots of history. As we were nearly empty I put $200 worth of petrol in at $1.36.

Travelled along side of the Gulflander rail line to Croydon which is a popular tourist route, it runs down on Wednesdays and back on Thursdays which means an overnight stay in Croydon. Probably the most boring bit of road we have travelled so glad we didn’t do it on the train as well.

Stayed in a nice green park at Croydon and went for a walk around the town which is only a shell of what it once was. There is a pop of 300 but in the late 1800’s it was booming gold town with a pop of 7000 with 60 pubs, over 1100 kids in three schools. There are a lot of heritage buildings restored and a very friendly information office. Had a couple of beers at the pub and went back to have prawns for tea, (bought for $15 kilo at Karumba). This park has cable TV so perhaps we should have brought the portable, watched DVD “The last time I saw Paris” with Elizabeth Taylor and Van Johnston-boring.