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  1. 6th December 2012, 01:24 PM #11
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    Quote Originally Posted by spudboy View Post
    So all the videos you see of 4WDs dropping into creeks and carefully inching across pole wooden bridges and generally getting bogged to get up there are on a separate track (CREB track?)?

    From the videos, I'd be thinking that a truck's height would be the main impediment to going where the normal Land Rover/LandCruiser size 4WDs are being filmed.
    Yes, they are all on the OTT (Old or Overland Telegraph Track) which follows the original telegraph lines. The peninsula development road is the one you can drive trucks on and is frankly a fairly boring, badly corrugated dirt road up the Jardine Ferry.

    Have a look at a Hema Cape York map or such like and you will see.

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    Quote Originally Posted by spudboy View Post
    But the first one would be Mrs Spud would be out and walking back home at around Tailem Bend, so I'd be doing the next 5,000kms on my own
    I've been to Tailem Bend (once). Why would anyone want to commence a walk of protest from there? Or walk that highway back to the hills.

    I have fond memories of being buzzed by B doubles doing 100 km/h + while I rode my peddly on the white line of the verge of the highway. I was clocked by a hiding copa pedalling 32km/h. Safe to say I wasn't booked.

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  3. 6th December 2012, 03:56 PM #13
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    I think she is expecting a bit more comfort and refinement than an old Blitz (?) truck might provide
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mick_Marsh View Post
    Why not get one of these?

    OK Mick - how many $ would one of these be ?

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  5. 6th December 2012, 05:35 PM #15
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    Quote Originally Posted by 87County View Post
    OK Mick - how many $ would one of these be ?

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    Some have been going on ebay for as little as $1,500.
    There have been many good ones (if you believe the vendor) for sale at under $6,000.

    Very affordable and (if you believe those who use them) reliable.
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    you can take the offroad tracks all the way up...

    a 1700 makes it easy... can get a touch tight but its workable.
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    spudboy,

    I was given a ride in the back of one of the Army Unimogs from Bamaga to the carpark at the tip. How the Army got the trucks to Bamaga I don't know but I think they drove them up, I was lucky enough to come in on a Caribou and out on a DC-3.
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    Quote Originally Posted by slug_burner View Post
    How the Army got the trucks to Bamaga I don't know.
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    a 1700 makes it easy... can get a touch tight but its workable.
    Go on Slug Burner, ask me what a 1700 is........
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    Quote Originally Posted by DiscoMick View Post
    We towed our camper trailer all the way to the abandoned resort right at the tip, and even managed to find a spot to camp inside the resort property with a view of the water right at the tip, so yes it should be fine.
    Saw several small truck-type campers up there. Some of them even did the Old Telegraph Track.
    What abandoned resort?
    I dont remember any resort from our trip in the 90,s let alone an abandoned one.
    There was a 4x4 Acco going up at the same time as us.

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    PS . perhaps Punsun bay caravan park?
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  10. 6th December 2012, 08:41 PM #20
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    No, Punsand bay is still going strong, although I wasn't as impressed by some by their legendary set menus.
    There is another resort within walking distance of the tip, that opened and closed very quickly. RH side of the road N about 100? metres before the car park.
    Regard sPhilip A
    BTW the Aussie Adventures 4X4 Mitsubishi buses get right to the car park and onto the "beach" so a Unimog will have no trouble at all with clearance.
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