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Newsletters | Oct, Nov, Dec2005

Sunset Caravan Park
Edition 12
By Arch Armstrong

May I take this opportunity on behalf of our Staff and Management of Karumba Point Sunset Caravan Park to wish you a very merry Christmas and a fabulous new year. Hopefully 2006 will bring you everything you want in abundance. Let me also thank you for your support in 2005 and I can tell you we look forward to seeing you again in 2006 when we will again have the opportunity to serve you.

If you have not stayed with us before please come and see us in 2006. All the very best wishes to you for Christmas and the new year.

At Karumba we are now in our yearly maintenance and improvement mode. The time of year we do those jobs that can't be attended to at other times. The time when we also look to improve our facilities and services so your time with us is more comfortable and enjoyable than ever before.

On reflection, 2005 was and interesting year and a good one for our guests. We had more people visit us from Australia and overseas and our regulars keep on coming back. We made some new friends and so did they.

Unfortunately some of our friends passed away. We will miss them.

We had one of our best fishing years with everyone catching their quota in record time. Where else in Australia can you be virtually guaranteed of that! Where else in Australia in an environment like Karumba can you get blue sky just about every day, fantastic sunsets, morning glories, millions of stars in the heavens at night, wildlife right on your doorstep, many species of birdlife on the ground and in the air, Click. Clean fresh air, friends all around, happy hours every day and a tavern just 200 metres up the road with cold beer, tasty food and TV and Pubtab. The fun filled Friday night meal nights at Karumba Point Sunset Caravan Park featuring local and passing through entertainment. Where else can you catch the mighty Barramundi in Australia in such abundance one of the best fighting fish in the world and one of the tastiest to eat. Click. And bear in mind folks Karumba Point Sunset Caravan Park is right on the water. The only park between the East Coast on a direct line from Cairns to Darwin. The boat ramp is just across the road. Just roll your tinnie 100 yards and put her in the tide. Combine all the above with excellent service from our loyal and dedicated staff and you have to ask yourself.

Well friends, you can do something about that right now. Just contact us at any of these contact points and we can make you an immediate reservation. Or you can go direct to our website by clicking here which will take you to our booking page.

Email: bookings@sunsetcp.com.au or sunsetcp@bigpond.com.au
Phone: Australia, 07 47459277. International, +66 7 47459277
Fax: Australia, 07 47459480. International, +66 7 47459480
Website: www.sunsetcp.com.au

Since my last letter we have been asked various questions regarding Karumba and Karumba Point Sunset Caravan Park. Most are already answered on our FAQ page on our website, however here are some of the questions and answers to some of the more frequently asked FAQs.

Q. Do mobile phones work in the area.
A. Digital phones do not but CDMA phones get reception in most areas. We do have public phones right on our doorstep.

Q. Do you get TV reception.
A. Yes we do and all our villas and cabins have TV.

Q. Do you have internet available in the area.
A. Yes we do.

Q. Is the fishing as good as it looks in the website.
A. Yes it is. Maybe even better.

Q. Should I book early.
A. Yes you should.

Q. Do I require a deposit.
A. Yes. The deposit is $100.00.

The value of a smile.

A smile costs nothing but gives much.

It enriches those who receive, without making poorer those who give.

It takes but a moment, but the memory of it can last forever.

None is so rich or mighty that he can get along without it and none is so poor that they cannot be enriched by it.

A smile creates happiness in the home, fosters goodwill in business and is the cornerstone of friendship.

It brings rest to the weary, cheer to the discouraged, sunshine to the sad and is natures antidote for trouble.

Yet it cannot be bought, begged, borrowed, or stolen, for it is something that has no value to anyone unless it is given away.

Some people are to tired to give you a smile.

Give them one of yours, as none needs a smile so much as those who have no more to give.

Over the 2005, Aussies have sure had some stick. With the loss of the Ashes and the Wallabies front five being demolished by the Poms the flack has been coming thick and fast. So if anyone can tell me where we can find a new front five, just let me know and I will pass it on to Eddie Jones. In the meantime you can take some solace from the following.

The day would soon arrive when I could not ignore the rash.

I was obviously ill and so I called on Doctor Nash.

This standard consultation would adjudicate my fate.

I walked into his surgery and gave it to him straight:

`Doc, I wonder if you might explain this allergy of mine,

I get these pins and needles running up and down my spine.

From there, across my body, I will suddenly extend

My neck will feel a shiver and the hairs will stand on end.

And then there is the symptom that only a man can fear

A choking in the throat, and the crying of a tear.'

Well, the Doctor scratched his melon with a rather worried look.

His furrowed brow suggested that the news to come was crook.

'What is it Doc?' I motioned. 'Have I got a rare disease?

I'm man enough to cop it sweet, so give it to me, please.'

'I'm not too sure,' he answered, in a puzzled kind of way.

'You've got some kind of fever, but it's hard for me to say.

When is it that you feel this most peculiar condition?

I thought for just a moment, then I gave him my position:

'I get it when I'm standing in an Anzac Day parade,

And I get it when the anthem of our native land is played,

And I get it when Meninga makes a Kiwi-crunching run,

And when Hayden grits his teeth to score a really gutsy ton.

I got it back in '91 when Farr-Jones held the Cup,

And I got it when Japan was stormed by Better Loosen Up.

I get it when Banjo takes me down the Snowy River,

And Matilda sends me waltzing with a billy-boiling shiver.

It hit me hard when Sydney was awarded the Games,

And I get it when I see our farmers fighting for their names.

It flattened me when Bertrand raised the boxing kangaroo,

And when Perkins smashed the record, well, the rashes were true blue.

So tell me, Doc,' I questioned. 'Am I really gonna die?'

He broke into a smile before he looked me in the eye.

As he fumbled with his stethoscope and pushed it out of reach

He wiped away a tear and then he gave me this stirring speech

From the beaches here in Queensland to the sweeping shores of Broome,

On the Harbour banks of Sydney where the waratah's in bloom.

From Uluru at sunset to the Mighty Tasman Sea,

In the Adelaide cathedrals, at the roaring MCG.

From the Great Australian Bight up to the Gulf of Carpentaria,

The medical profession call it "green and gold malaria".

But forget about the text books, son, the truth I shouldn't hide.

The rash that you've contracted here is "good old Aussie pride".

I'm afraid that you were born with it and one thing is for sure -

You'll die with it, young man, because there isn't any cure.

Now if that does not stir up a bit of the old national pride I guess nothing will!!

Mates, that's my lot for 2005.
Hope to see you at Karumba soon.
Very Best Wishes.
Kind Regards
Arch Armstrong.

Oh!! And have a good day!