Cape York

[leeds]

Barbara and I are now back in Cairns after our little trip up to the Tip. The 110 is now getting some TLC at the capable hands of Colin at Hypertuned

The low point of the trip? Well to put it bluntly and with my whinging pom hat on is the disgusting condition of the vast majourity of bush camp sites. A large proportion of the Aussie 4 x 4 community obviously have no respect for their environment! Harsh words? Some of the bush camp sites were literally **** holes!


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Yep bags of excrement hanging from a tree at Dulhuntey campsite. What morons!

Whinging pom hat off now

The only decent bush campsite we found was at Birdie Creek.


A lovely camp site is at Mary Valley and is well worth the 5km detour off the road. Camp close to a waterhole with fresh watercrocs in, king fisher etc and a dusk flight of flying foxes


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The Old Telegraph Track was straightforward enough during the dry season although it seems everyone who owns a 4 x 4 in Australia goes and does the track. If it was wet it would be a different story. At the top end we come across a group of 40, yes 40 vehicles doing a tag along tour!

A few photos

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It is always a good feeling to help someone out especially when they drive Jap crap


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Yep we got the 110 as far north as it is practical on the Aussie mainland

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and had some decent sunsets


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We had a good look at the Jardine crossing

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The exit looks so easy

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but we resisted the temptation


To be honest found the Frenchman Line and the Creb track more interesting and the Creb was more challenging with uphill climbs like 'brick house ends'

I would not like to drive the Creb after reasonable rainfall and reckon the sign is correct


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Barbara starts her journey home soon and I start heading west across the top of Australia


Regards


Brendan

[easo]

Glad to see your enjoying your trip mate. Yep there are quite a few people who have no respect for the land we have and abuse it. The sader part being that the people who do the right thing end up paying for few who don't.

I wished we could have caugh up when you passed through Wagga Wagga, if you came via Albury over the rail overpass you would have passed within a few hundred metres of our place, but I was over in your lovely green country for nearly 4 months working in Winchester. I did catch up with camellandy (dunno if you know him at all) and he took me around Gayton and the test tracks.

However glad to see you having fun, Easo

[BBC]

Enjoying the photos, keep them coming.

[weeds]

could be moved to queensalnd trip reports maybe.....

good to see you made it up and back with no troubles, 40 cars in a tag along is a bit over the top

i keep putting off the cape until i have toured more of the eastern half of australia, will get up there one day

[Redback]

Good to see your enjoying your adventure and yes the conditions of the campsite are not good, according too a mate who has just returned, he echoed your statements.

There were 2 cars that attempted the Jardine while he was there, a 78 series cruiser and a 100 series, the 78 made it, the 100 didn't.

Great photos too by the way, that sunset is brilliant.

Baz.

[Narangga]

Thanks Leeds. You'll soon cross the border into the NT ... :D

[Psimpson7]

Leeds,

Looks like your having a good trip.... :)

The rubbish seems worse than it did when we were up there. Maybe its because its later in the season?

If only we had been at the Jardine crossing at the same time...... I was so tempted also

Pete.

[TwoUp]

Great pics Leeds,
Did you get to Roaring Meg on the Creb? It's a good run. (For anyone else heading therer it is good to advise the traditional owner Peter, I have his details if you are going, PM me for info).

The frenchman line was fairly washed out on my last trip but interesting all the same.

I guess you are looking forward to some open country now, watch the shaley roads for puncktures. Your muddies should handle that Ok.

Regards,
PeterW

[The ho har's]

Great pics Leeds & Bittersweet

Great pics

Great to hear you are enjoying yourselves. Have a good trip home Barbara see you when you are next over:D
BTW when are you in Singapore I will be there on 11/12 Oct.

You will love N.T. but watch out for some rubbish:(

Mrs ho har:angel:

[dmdigital]

Great pics and glad you've made it to FNQ. NT is a lot different and the weather is starting to turn towards the wet season build up:twisted:

I can only agree with you Leeds about the state of camp sites in Australia. You're not whinging, just helping voice the concerns of many others.

[V8Landy]

I can't wait to get up there but still a few yrs away unfortunately enjoy the rest of your trip and keep the photos coming

[numpty]

Frenchman Line????? It's Frenchmans Track. A little thing I know, but it helps people who are reading these posts to know where you are talking about. And it was an interesting run when we did it in 1994.

Shame about the rubbish. It shouldn't be, but it's a fact of life these days and I am beginning to think that it is not a minority anymore who don't care.:mad:

The "French Line" is in the Simpson.:o

[leeds]

Oooops, sorry Numpty. My geographical knowledge of Aus is improving.


Frenchman Line is in the Simpson, Frenchmans Track is in Cape York.

Will write it out 100 times so I don't forget! :p

Regards


Brendan

[garryc]

Brendan, Just did some what of the same trip. :D Sorry I didn't contact you. One of our vehicles overheated(Paj) and we detoured to Townsville. Only 4 out of 7 did the Cape trip. I was the only LR. We did Creb and camped at Roaring Meg falls and while the girls went to the 'womens secret falls' we did the Zigzag track. I remember the log bridge in your photo. I almost got stuck in Nolan Creek but was able to reverse out and get through about 3 metres to the right. Others got stuck and water damage. Where was it that you towed the other vehicle out? Must agree about the rubbish and excrement at camp sites, very disappointing, don't let the greenies see that or they'll want to ban all 4wd's. We did the Old Telegraph line all the way up. regards garry

[TwoUp]

I will put my hand up also for wrong wording. Seems that here we call things by another name to avoid the masses following that it becomes a "what I mean not what I have said about the route!!"
French east of Batavia not surveyed Ok

Regards,
PeterW

[olbod]

Oooops, sorry Numpty. My geographical knowledge of Aus is improving.


Frenchman Line is in the Simpson, Frenchmans Track is in Cape York.

Will write it out 100 times so I don't forget! :p

Regards


Brendan


Good boy.

[1103.9TDI]

Kinda funny that so many people come from all parts of Australia to throw rubbish around and leave un-covered cr@p in FNQ!.

Don't let me catch them in the act, I have no problems getting the pointy end of my boot rather dirty!.

[George130]

Great photo's.
Glad you had fun.
Rubbish is an issue everywhere. I often end up leaving places with a few bags of other peoples rubbish.

[leeds]

Great photo's.
Glad you had fun.
Rubbish is an issue everywhere. I often end up leaving places with a few bags of other peoples rubbish.

I normally try to pick up a few extra pieces of rubbish when I am on a campsite. My reasoning is two fold. It negates any of my rubbish that I have missed/been blown away also if EVERYONE picked up some then the place would be self sustaining as far as rubbish goes.

I was brought up to leave a place in the same condition OR BETTER then I found it.

It did tend to mar what was overall a good trip.

regards

Brendan

[weeds]

I was brought up to leave a place in the same condition OR BETTER then I found it.


yep a good saying that surfaced a few years ago

don't destroy what you have come to enjoy......well something like that

everytime i go up cooloola beach i bring extra rubbish back with me