21 June 2021
As I sit in Normanton waiting on whether I will get my tyre fixed today or maybe tomorrow or whether it is even in town I reflect on a comment a friend once made about the Northern Territory (NT). His advice was NT stood for Not Today, Not Tomorrow, Next Time. With this advice in mind I have decided that I must relax and adopt FNQ time, that’s Far North Queensland and to go with the flow. As the venerable King Canute was at pains to point out, some forces of nature just cannot be challenged by mere man.
Over the past five days we have visited all the sites Normanton has to offer. Included in our exploration of Normanton was a visit to the rugby games played between six local teams.
The games started at 1.00pm and didn’t finish until after 9.00pm. To describe these teams as local is to rely on the local interpretation of what constitutes ‘local’. One team was from Normanton, another flew in from the Mornington Island, there was one from Doomadgee on the Gulf, a six hour drive and another from further north up the Cape a mere 12 hours away.
It was a great day with lots of cheering from the fans on the side lines. After the games there was a local band performing what from a distance sounded like country music. These teams get together four times a year and when they do it’s a weekend of entertainment.
Breaking News: The tyre has arrived and I should be down to get it fitted in a half hour. Yay.
Some sites of Normanton:
A Traveller's Tale 