Tuesday, 10 July 2012

Julia Creek 5th July

Arrived at Julia Creek about 3:30 booked into McKinlay Shine Council Caravan park as we were wanting to wash bedding and heavy cloths and have a nice long shower and hair wash,by then 6:00 no time for happy hour.left van park 9:45am was told about a camp site 2km down the road so ended up finding it, it is great near a pond and a nice grassy area to camp on. Great as it's a free camp for 96 hours so decided to stay.so nice and quite,well guess what the last four camp site we have been at there's a couple in a fifth wheeler that keeps playing country music till late,turned up again tonight and yes the country music is playing.Peta,Roy & myself walked into town while Warren went fishing for red claw.No fires tonight blowing to hard. Roy and Warren placed pots in the creek about 1k downstream from where we are camped. They checked the pots at 5pm and Roy's had four blue claw but warrens had none. So pots were
Placed Back in and they will be checked In the morning.Warren used whisked cat food For Bait and Roy used tuna So maybe that's the reason.
Saturday 7th
Had a great day just chilling out catching up on house work and washing,after lunch went into town the only thing opened was supermarket and two pubs, we decided to pop in and Warren & Roy had a beer,Peta and myself had a wine,then back to the camp,hot day and wine early feel like wanting to have a siesta,instead put the feet up reading. Early shower.
Sunday 8th July
Had a sleep in after a very hot night,Warren and Roy went and check on the crab pot,after Breakie,no red craw so brought the pot back.went into town got Sunday paper and milk.Warren and I washed the van,then read paper under a tree,was 30 to-day so can not complain about the weather.Cooked curry sausages out side on the cooker.9:00pm and our country music man is still playing his music, Warren found out he's not going the same way as us,thank goodnessI think he needs a new cd keeps playing the same one
Monday 9th July
Packed up and leaving Julia Creek,water tank full toilet empty,now on our way 9:30 to Cloncurry.
Arrived at Cloncurry pick up fruit and vegetables then on to Chinaman Dam for lunch.2:00pm left and now looking for a camp site.3:20 have found a great camp site Clem Walton Park & Corella Dam,decided to stay 2 nights so going fishing tomorrow

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