Georgetown

May 6th

We left the grey nomads to continue on with their fishing and drunk behaviour to head south again alongside an interesting railway line that ran from Normanton & Croydon. This short stretch of railway is only used now for tourist trips but was originally built to move the gold mined in Croydon to Normanton so it could be shipped from Karumba. This line was difficult and costly to build and was only used for four years! The line runs over swamp land thus every wet season would be inundated with water and the train would possibly be stuck for weeks while the water subsided.




After checking out the quiet – now farming – town, we headed on Georgetown, another town that was big for mining but now is a centre for surrounding farms. Georgetown hosts one of the biggest personal collections of rocks and minerals. The museum was very interesting – pertified wood, prehistoric mollusc shells, thunder eggs and various minerals – we learnt a lot!