Thread: Getting the Family to Ruddy Doomadgee!!

Originally Posted by Ranga

What do you do for a crust in Doomadgee?

Yes. I am the Manager of the Doomadgee Roadhouse, been doing that for the past 2.5 years.

I have lived in Doomadgee (with a couple of year or 2 brakes) since 1993, I used to run "The Big Store" but got feed up with dealing with their bureaucratic crap. Paperwork became more important than the customers.

Love the place, people & country.

Jonesfam

Originally Posted by Bearman

Well done mate. Yes you both did well to get through in the 1 day. Did u have to go via Burke and Wills / Gregory or direct Normanton to Burketown. SWMBO deserves a treat for that - but where do you treat the missus in Doomadgee?????
At the roadhouse.....haha
Just an aside - the biggest cane toad I have ever seen was at Burke and Wills roadhouse. We were coming back to the Isa from a fishing trip to Karumba around 1980 and stopped off at B & W for a burger and it was about 8 pm when we arrived there. I spotted this thing sitting under a seat outside the roadhouse and thought it was a rabbit. When I got closer I could see it was a huge cane toad feasting on insects that got bbqued on the big light outside. I thought about kicking it but decided not to as I reckon it would have broken my foot - was huge, about 20cm tall!!!!!

Had to drive Normanton, B&W, Gregory.
1 of the causeways on the Normanton to Burketown road has had it's approaches washed away, like 5m deep & 10m long holes!
That road will be out for a while.
Jonesfam