Thursday 25th May

We've been asking for days whether the road from Normanton to Burketown was open, and heard several stories that the creeks "were up over the bonnet". A quick visit to the shire offices assured us it was open with "a couple of inches" of water. This was 90% correct....most crossings were only a couple of inches. But as we rounded a bend in the road, created by a bulldozer from recently formed sand dunes we spotted another car heading in the opposite direction with water up to it's bumper bar. He informed us that this was the worst of it. We sailed through in the Troopy without a problem. We have stopped at Burketown for the night and shared a few beers with friends from Karumba.