Day 132: The Lynd - Normanton

After a peaceful nights sleep we set off to Normanton.

The nights are getting really cold, we are using a blanket as well as a duvet, plus we are sleeping in track pants and fleece. Thankfully the days are hot reaching into the 30's.

Normanton is a small town. It has a distinctive purple pub and is home the The Gulflander train, the oldest original railway line in Australia and said to go from nowhere to nowhere. It was designed by George Phillips. He designed and patented steel sleepers that were hollow and packed with mud. This ingeniously avoided the need for ballast on the track. They could also be submersed, thus fixing the problem of "the wrong kind of" flooding on the track. These type of sleepers are still being used today. Not bad for a town called "nowhere".

Em

Oh and there was also a Big Barramundi we forgot to take a picture of... its not the same without Henry :(