Well we faced another beautiful day today, a bit warm if anything. It was an "administrative" and a "recovery" day. Administrative = shopping, washing, tidying the van, recovery = no travelling and catching up on blogs not done as the result of there being no internet service at Gregory.
Normanton is a small cattle town and locality in the Shire of Carpentaria. Normanton has a population of around 1470 people, about half of whom are Indigenous Australians. The town is one terminus of the isolated Normanton to Croydon railway line, which was built during gold rush days in the 1890's. The Gulflander motor train operates once a week. It has quite an impressive station.
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| 030617 The Normanton Railway Station |
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| 030617 The "Gulflander" at Normanton Station |
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| 030617 The "Gulflander" |
Its streets are wide and the town is kept in reasonable condition although there are no businesses of any size. It does however lay claim to having the longest running Burns Philp enterprise. The general mercantile and agency store has been operating since 1884.
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| 030617 Normanton's main street looking north |
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| 030617 Normanton's main street looking south |
Normanton is the administrative centre of the Shire of Carpentaria. Among Normanton's most notable features is a statue of Krys, a saltwater crocodile, the largest ever taken, which was shot by Krystina Pawlowska in July 1957 in the Norman River. Barramundi and Threadfin Salmon may also be caught in the river. There is also Normanton's Big Barramundi.
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| 030617 The story of Krys, the Savannah King |
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030617 Krys, the Savannah King life-sized model.
It is 8.63m long
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| The Big Barramundi |
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There were some interesting buildings in Normanton.
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| 030617 The Purple Hotel |
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| 030617 The Westpac building |
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| 030617 The Burns Philp building |
So endeth our day of administration and recovery, plenty of administration but not much recovery.
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