Day 145 - The Gulflander (Normanton to Croydon) and then on to Georgetown
August 19th 2015 The Gulflander is strictly speaking not a train but a railmotor (a converted bus I think, Andrew will confirm). This is a rail journey that takes you back into history, you can really feel what it would have been like way back when. It's a journey that many rail buffs aspire to but it is a long way from anywhere. In fact the journey is known as "from nowhere to nowhere much". My son, Andrew and I,
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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 
