Tawny Frogmouth at Normanton

There were a pair of Tawny Frogmouths (a type of owl) nesting high in the rafters of the Normanton Station. When on a tree these birds are completely camouflaged, especially when they stand still with their head up. You can just see the "whiskers" above its beak.

The Billy Tea and Damper Run

August 16th 2014
We were up early today for the Gulflander “Billy Tea and Damper Excursion”, a special run they do on Saturdays in the dry season. We’d been told not to eat anything as there was always heaps of food but it wasn’t coming until around 11ish so we had a light breakfast. We towed the van to the Station car park, which had plenty of room, and paid the fare (rather more than we had realised as y ... read more

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Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more

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