This lovely camping area is just 24 klms SE of Normanton on the Gulflander Highway.
It is part of a small station and the owners allow people to camp beside the lagoon.
You register at the "caretakers" when you arrive and the cost is $7:00 per person per night.
On saturday nights the station owners prepare a three course meal for $5.00 each( $3:00 if you stay more than one night). The night we were there, we had tomato soup and delicious home made damper, beef stroganoff and desert. There was also a country mus
ic singer and his guitar. It was a wonderful night.There are apparently 75 different types of birds in the lagoon at different times of the year so we spent hours just sitting, watching and trying to photograph the birds. I certainly take my hat off to the bird photographers. They must have the patience of a saint.
The Norman river is just across the highway where they say the fishing is good. The caretakers run a fishing competetion for those travellers who decide to stay a while.
There is toilets and showers. This entire area was flooded in summer of 2009.
Even though it is just out of Normanton it is well worth the stop.
Leichhardt Lagoon
Gulflander Highway
Hema Map # 253
We are planning on being up that way in August and was wondering what the occupancy rate for this camp is. It certainly sounds like a spot worth the stop.
ReplyDeleteShane Clark