Normanton again

We headed back to Normanton with the plan to finish the Barramundi fishing which we couldn’t do fully last time because the boat had broken down. We headed out for a day, but just as the locals had warned us, the fish had gone off the bite since we were there last time (typical!). But Michelle, Jaime and Cody all pulled one in. Jaime’s was the biggest but it was ½ cm under legal size (even with us trying to stretch the fish!) so we had to throw it back. Despite the lack of hungry Barra we had an enjoyable day out on the water, the boys drove the boat and we spotted plenty of crocodiles.

Normanton is a funny town, they have painted the buildings different colours eg the pub is purple, the butchers is green, the chemist is pink and the information centre is orange etc. It looks really good, particularly the pub at night. Another strange thing is that no shop seems to specialise in anything, the all sell fuel and a range of grocery items.

The caravan park was an enjoyable place to stay as they had a 13 year old son who Aidan and Cody had fun with (especially at night when the three of them helped out with eradicating the cane toad population – we won’t go into details as they are a bit graphic). The park also had a really nice 25m pool and spa which we spent plenty of time relaxing in.