Western Qld - The Quamby Pub to Karumba

Day 6 to 8 - Thursday 11th to Saturday 13th September, 2025

Yeah yeah I know what you're going to say in a minute, we were on the road this morning around 8.30am bound for Karumba (it's early for us we're just cruisin' along) 😉 

Grabbed fuel at Normanton arriving about 1pm at the Sunset Caravan Park in Karumba Point.  Booked in, found our site next to our mates who were out and about.  First time unhooking so far on this trip, that's okay I've sure the Hilux will appreciate it 😆  Our mates Razzle and Doreen arrived before we had unhooked and after the hello's and hugs what do you reckon the first thing the boys did......🤔  bingo,  grabbed  beer out of the fridge in the back of my car 😆

Once everything was set up, which took a little while with those beers flowing out of the fridge, we settled down in the shade for drinks.

Doreen announced earlier, that she hoped we were going to the pub for dinner tonight - so we thought it best to go to the pub for the obligatory sunset and photos, drinks and of course dinner.  Since we have Barney with us, we'll have to sit in the dog friendly fenced area, last time we were up here with Boris, you could sit anywhere out the back on the grass, the dog friendly area is quite small sadly.  I get that some people don't want to have dinner with people's dogs around, that's cool, I just wish the dog area was  little bigger, just my thoughts.

Craig and I both got the Seafood Basket, I mean come on we are in Karumba and of course the sunset was beautiful.

So I don't bore you with our couple of days in Karumba, here's a round up which was basically just relaxing, catching up on washing, the men 🤭checking over the vans and cars, Barney meeting 3 other staffies and running around playing chasey on the road with another staffy about 6am one morning while going for his walk with Craig.  Lunching at both fish and chip shops at Karumba Point - Ash's and Pa's, both were very nice.  Boys drinking beer from 10am in the morning, fishing and not catching and then starting to pack up and preparing for department Sunday morning for our trip back together.

Craig expressed his interest in coming back again maybe in 2 years, he likes Karumba Point.  For those who haven't been before, Karumba the township has another caravan park, pub, bakery and grocery stores.

Sunset Caravan Park at Karumba Point is a great park, you've got two camp kitchens, two amenities blocks and laundries, cafe, powered and unpowered sites, dog wash facility, when we were there the pizza van was there on the Friday night.  You get text messages from reception about things happening, which is good. $67.00/night - 2 people power/water.

Western Qld - Winton to The Quamby Pub

 Day 5 - Wednesday 10th September, 2025

Packed up early again, topped up with fuel (while we were filling up we ran into a couple that were camping at Blackall next to us and are travelling to Karumba also, lovely older couple) unfortunately our quick hello was interrupted by a fellow behind him barping his horn in his big 4wd and huge caravan - it was only a 10 second hello for goodness sakes.  It was pies again this morning for breakfast, followed by an apple turnover for Craig.  We found a rest stop just out of town and pulled over to eat our pies. 

Drove through Kynuna and stopped at the next town McKinlay at the Walkabout Hotel for a break and quick drink.  Haven't been through these towns for so long and the Walkabout Hotel still looks the same as we remember. 

Onwards to Cloncurry to get some grog before ending up at our stay for tonight, which is The Quamby Pub which is about 40klm north of Cloncurry.

Pulling up at The Quamby Pub, it looks like all the photos I've seen on Facebook in the pub camping group. 

I popped into the pub to book into a powered site hopefully, I was asked if we had a 10 or 15amp plug and there was some back and forth with the Chef something to do with power draw, I didn't quite follow but end result was everything was okay.  One of the staff from the kitchen was leaving and said he'd show us to the powered section and to meet him at the pool (yep pub has a pool), he just had to drop off a meal to someone in the rooms.

The fellow gave us the run down on where the plug in was in the pool area and left us to decide where to park.  Looks like you'd get maybe 3 or 4 vans in the powered area and it would be cosy but you would need quite a long lead for a couple of the spots.  We only had a 20m lead so parked behind the pool so we could reach the power.  There are also heaps of unpowered sites, which are tiered levels, decent camp kitchen and big under cover area with tables and chairs, pool, toilets, showers and dog friendly camping and they are also allowed on the front veranda of the pub.  Where we were camped there's a nice grassy area which is shaded in the afternoon.

We had a couple of drinks on the veranda then had to re-locate over to the camp kitchen closer to our Starlink so I could work, it's wages day so kinda important.  Barney was very hot, so Craig took him over to the shadey grassy area near our van and he rolled around on the grass having a fat time.

We headed back to the pub around 5.30pm for a couple drinks and dinner on the front veranda.  Craig had Steak and veg and I had Snitty, Chip, Salad and gravey.  Barney met our neighbours Beagle today and they had a lovely time playing with each other.  The neighbours are also travelling to Karuma and their site isn't too far from ours - go figure.

Early night for us, we are planning to leave early (well early for us anyway) so we get to Karumba before lunch.  It's been a pleasant stay at The Quamby Pub.