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Hi All,
We have not long returned from our trip to cape york so thought I would put up some pics etc from our trip. Before leaving Cairns we spent a day doing the touristy thing in Cairns and went for a trip on the Kuranda skyrail and train.
Unfortunately Barwon Falls was not really doing its thing - Imagine it is fairly spectacular in the wet season
We stopped at a couple of the roadhouses / camping areas on way north including Archer river roadhouse, that had a nice river a few minutes walk down the road, where Jaiden and myself spent some time cooling off.
The next day we arrived at Bramwell Junction which is where the fun stuff starts. Our group consisted of two Prados and two patrols.
You only have to go aboout 4km's up the track to get to the first creek crossing - Palm Creek
This was the entrance.
and this was the exit - there had been about ten vehicles go through before us which made the exit very wet and slippery, so there wasn't much chance that I would get the Prado and camper up the hill without some help.
Decided to stop at Bertie creeck for a quick car wash, before setting up camp here for the night.
With no showers around the only option was to have swim in the creek.
The next crossing along the track was gunshot, about 8km's south of gunshot we had the option of taking the bypass track.
we chose the bypass track, which was interesting in its own right with some tall ant hills.
We did however backtrack to gunshot just to have look and see what all the fuss was about.
Why anyone would drive off this is beyond me!
and this was the chicken track!
There was another way down the bank as well that consisted almost knee deep mud
The next crossing along is Cockatoo creek, once again another wet and slippery bank to slide down
Cockatoo creek is not far from the northern end of the southern section of the telegraph track, so we headed for Elliot / twin falls to grab a camp site before the rest of the crowds arrived, but to get in there we had one more water crossing to negotiate.
Elliot falls is a spectacular place to stay, so we thought we would have two nights here and tackle the northern section of telegraph without the campers in tow
Some of the highlights of the northern section included the log bridge across Cypress creek
Perhaps I should have looked under the bridge before driving across it!
A few km's up the road we came to Boggey hole, if there was evergoing to be crocodiles somewhere I reckon this was the place.
So we went to see if we could find any
None there, so after checking the rest of the crossing we dived on in - Prado and and all.
The last crossing of the telegraph track was Nolan's Brook. We had been told that several vehicles including a couple of Prados had been swamped here in the last few days. So once again we waded on in to check it out thoroughly.
Once we had decided which way we were going to go it was time to take the plunge
After successfully driving the entire telegraph track, and not getting any water in the vehicles or the campers it was time to jump on the Jardine River ferry and head for Seisia
where this was the view out the camper door!
The final leg of the trip to the tip saw us stop at the croc tent for some souveniers
This is as far north as you can drive, unless of course you go down on the beach at low tide!
And here we are at the sign, which has fortunately been replaced aft some idiots cut if down last year!
Out near Bamaga airport are some leftovers from world war 2
While having a look at the old planes, Brett who owns/started the myswag.org camper trailer forum turned up so we stopped to have a chat..
While there were lots of Prados up at the cape ABR Sidewinders, was the only one I saw that had a PP sticker onit.
On the way south the line up to get across the ferry again was almost 1km long, there was something like 140 vehicles a day going across the Jardine river.
After some reorganising of others waiting to board the ferry, I was able to get Prados on the front of the ferry for this photo.
Up until the trip south I had manged to keep the car reasonably clean, but then we found some roadworks where they had been spraying water on the road.
Still some more photos to come, but I have to go work soon, so will add them later.
Cheers
Lindsay
We have not long returned from our trip to cape york so thought I would put up some pics etc from our trip. Before leaving Cairns we spent a day doing the touristy thing in Cairns and went for a trip on the Kuranda skyrail and train.
Unfortunately Barwon Falls was not really doing its thing - Imagine it is fairly spectacular in the wet season
We stopped at a couple of the roadhouses / camping areas on way north including Archer river roadhouse, that had a nice river a few minutes walk down the road, where Jaiden and myself spent some time cooling off.
The next day we arrived at Bramwell Junction which is where the fun stuff starts. Our group consisted of two Prados and two patrols.
You only have to go aboout 4km's up the track to get to the first creek crossing - Palm Creek
This was the entrance.
and this was the exit - there had been about ten vehicles go through before us which made the exit very wet and slippery, so there wasn't much chance that I would get the Prado and camper up the hill without some help.
Decided to stop at Bertie creeck for a quick car wash, before setting up camp here for the night.
With no showers around the only option was to have swim in the creek.
The next crossing along the track was gunshot, about 8km's south of gunshot we had the option of taking the bypass track.
we chose the bypass track, which was interesting in its own right with some tall ant hills.
We did however backtrack to gunshot just to have look and see what all the fuss was about.
Why anyone would drive off this is beyond me!
and this was the chicken track!
There was another way down the bank as well that consisted almost knee deep mud
The next crossing along is Cockatoo creek, once again another wet and slippery bank to slide down
Cockatoo creek is not far from the northern end of the southern section of the telegraph track, so we headed for Elliot / twin falls to grab a camp site before the rest of the crowds arrived, but to get in there we had one more water crossing to negotiate.
Elliot falls is a spectacular place to stay, so we thought we would have two nights here and tackle the northern section of telegraph without the campers in tow
Some of the highlights of the northern section included the log bridge across Cypress creek
Perhaps I should have looked under the bridge before driving across it!
A few km's up the road we came to Boggey hole, if there was evergoing to be crocodiles somewhere I reckon this was the place.
So we went to see if we could find any
None there, so after checking the rest of the crossing we dived on in - Prado and and all.
The last crossing of the telegraph track was Nolan's Brook. We had been told that several vehicles including a couple of Prados had been swamped here in the last few days. So once again we waded on in to check it out thoroughly.
Once we had decided which way we were going to go it was time to take the plunge
After successfully driving the entire telegraph track, and not getting any water in the vehicles or the campers it was time to jump on the Jardine River ferry and head for Seisia
where this was the view out the camper door!
The final leg of the trip to the tip saw us stop at the croc tent for some souveniers
This is as far north as you can drive, unless of course you go down on the beach at low tide!
And here we are at the sign, which has fortunately been replaced aft some idiots cut if down last year!
Out near Bamaga airport are some leftovers from world war 2
While having a look at the old planes, Brett who owns/started the myswag.org camper trailer forum turned up so we stopped to have a chat..
While there were lots of Prados up at the cape ABR Sidewinders, was the only one I saw that had a PP sticker onit.
On the way south the line up to get across the ferry again was almost 1km long, there was something like 140 vehicles a day going across the Jardine river.
After some reorganising of others waiting to board the ferry, I was able to get Prados on the front of the ferry for this photo.
Up until the trip south I had manged to keep the car reasonably clean, but then we found some roadworks where they had been spraying water on the road.
Still some more photos to come, but I have to go work soon, so will add them later.
Cheers
Lindsay
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