Sunday, Feb 24, 2008 at 12:47
Lynxxy,
The Show/Rodeo week end is 15/16/17 August so we'll be later than you. But, if you would like to go back for that week end it's a fun couple of days if you like rodeo, gymkhana, local show and the whole shebang. The people from the stations come in for the whole week end and it's a great experience to be part of.
A few things around there...Caranbarini Conservation Park which is on the bitumen between
Borroloola and
Cape Crawford. It's right beside the road and is a walk around a "mini Lost City".
Borroloola has an interesting history...there's a lot of
information on this website -
www. walkabout.com.au/locations/NTBorroloola
but if that doesn't work, just google "walkabout Borroloola" and you should get it. There is a museum there that is worth spending some time looking around too.
We went from there to Roper Bar/
Mataranka in about 1999 so can't give up to date info on roads. We had no problems, the road had its share of corrugations etc but nothing too bad. There was good camping along the way. We camped at The
Towns River.
We were back again in
Borroloola in 2001 and that's when we went to the rodeo etc. But that time we went to
Cape Crawford and then across the Buchanan/Buntine roads to
Halls Creek & the
Gibb River Road.
We're off again this year to go to
places that we didn't know about back then, like
Lorella Springs, Butterfly Springs, the Southern and Western Lost Cities, Poppy's Pools etc. We're really looking forward to it.
I hope you have a good trip.
Viv
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