Merluna Station

16 – 18 August 2024

Leaving Rinyirru National Park early we stopped again to photograph the Red Goshawk, then continued on to Musgrave Station Roadhouse before making our way to Coen. We had noticed that one of our headlights wasn’t working so we called into the mechanic to see if they could have a look at it for us. Unfortunately we would have had to wait a number of hours, just for someone to have a look so we opted to continue on and try to get it sorted in Weipa.

We have stayed at Merluna Station a couple of times and enjoyed the quiet, relaxed atmosphere, so decided to spend a couple of days there before heading into Weipa. We were on a bit of a timeline due to some more National Parks bookings but had a few days to fill in.

Merluna is the sort of place where you end up chatting to fellow travellers and we met a couple who live at Ravenshoe. It turned out they may be in need of housesitters so they took our contact details on the off-chance we may be able to help them out.

Fiiday drinks at Merluna - a great place to meet people

We really didn’t do much at Merluna, just hung out, did some chores and relaxed. We headed off to Weipa, having booked a site at the caravan park. Weipa is really popular and gets very crowded so we wanted to make sure we wouldn’t be turned away.