Karumba

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We knew that the only reason anyone went to Karumba was to fish.   Its all about fishing here.   In the caravan park we met three couples, all of whom, come for three months at a time to sit out the cold winters down south and to fish.    There is nothing else to do here.   Nothing touristy to see and nowhere you can drive to to escape.   How people do it is beyond us.   We spent a day and night and it was enough for us.  So we vsited the Info Centre - closed, the Barramundi Research Centre - closed.   The only two things you can do except for fishing, drinking at the pub or relaxing at the park.   We were so bored, we even visited the tip.   Well it was by accident as we had seen heaps of big Kites circling and we were just watching them in awe when we realised we were at the tip.  If you love the smell of rotting fish guts in plastic bags, then it was the place to be.   Any wonder the birds were so big.    Caught up at the pub with a couple who we had met previously in Mareeba, had a drink, they were there for a week!!!!!!!   Waiting to do a fishing charter.   She wouldnt go out in their own foldaboat as she was afraid of crocs.   Blow me down, we clearly saw two in the shallow water whilst at the pub.    There really are crocs at the beach.   We thought it was a myth to stop us all going for a nice dip on a hot day.    Their is no actual beach at Karumba, unless you want to drive a fair distance.   Its all rocky and mud flat.   Nothing attractive except for the color of the water.  Sunday morning saw us at the Market.   Ladies who make cards, teacosies, dolls, jewellery whilst bored out of their brains at the caravan park trying to flog their stuff.    The only good thing at Karumba were the fish n chips.   The freshest barra you could get.

Tawny frogmouths next to our bus

At the pub

Kite at the pub