Drove straight to Cloncurry. The only thing of note on the drive was at McKinley where the pub was used in the movie Crocodile Dundee (at least that is what we were told). As neither of us are real movie buffs we just did a drive bye. There is a statue of a crocodile on the roof. Arrived at Cloncurry and set up in time for a late lunch. We just lazed around for the afternoon chatting to different people. Monday we went to Mary Kathleen Memorial Park where we walked up to the lookout for a panoramic view of Cloncurry. There is also a display of mining, rail and farm equipment. There are also steam and traction engines. The unique feature was a Ford V8 Rail Ambulance which was in use from 1956 to 1971 when the roads were impassable. We decided to visit the Chinese and Afghan cemeteries but the directions in the information booklet left a lot to be desired. We ended up finding the Afghan cemetery by pure luck. The brochure said there were many graves of camel train drivers from the turn of the century to the 1950s. We found 2 graves and the only thing that distinguished them from the rest of the cemetery was that they faced north-south. After blindly driving around for 15 minutes trying to find the Chinese cemetery we gave up. That just about covered things to do in Cloncurry. There are a couple of other museums but we have done enough museums for a while. Back to the van for the afternoon chatting with the new neighbours that have pulled in today. Whoops, just finished typing this and I closed the information book to find a map on the back page showing where everything is. I looked through the book a few times trying to find the map complaining when I couldn't find it, just didn't look on the back page. Oh well, too late only missed the Chinese cemetery.
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