Thread: West coast Cape York.

If you get the chance go onto the Archer River in Oyala Thumotang National Park - formerly known as Mungkan Kandju National Park. see the map below

[ame]http://www.nprsr.qld.gov.au/parks/oyala-thumotang/pdf/oyala-thumotang-map.pdf[/ame]

We caught heaps of Barra Sootys & Saratoga. Really pretty spot and a great drive in through the park.


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Originally Posted by roverrescue

Chenz,
Stop spreading rumours about places with terrible fishing
That photo was photoshopped Im sure - there are no barra in "that" national park

Steve

Oh yeah, right, you are correct there are no barra in "that" place. You have to go closer to Weipa to catch them.

That place is terrible for fishing (not)

A funny thing about camping there, we and our travelling party in two other vehicles had booked into have one of the spots down on the Archer and at the entrance to the park, sure enough our names were on the board for the dates we requested.

We drive the few hours into the park to get there and come over the last rise and look down into the camping area to see it looks like the Woolies carpark.

I drive up a spot where some guy in a Troopie is camped with a camper trailer and ask if he had booked this site.

Before he can say anything, his better (read worse) half comes flying out of the camper and starts abusing me. I keep a very straight face and said to her "Slow down Darling I am talking to the butcher not the block" then turned back to speak to her hubbie. I could feel the steam coming out of her ears.

He then told me that had booked into another site a few klms away but his wife did not like that spot so they came here. I told him he better pack up and go back there.

His response was "I've a got a chainsaw in here. I will cut down some trees so you can camp next to us". I told him the rangers may not see the funny side to this.

We managed to squeeze in close to the riverbank and the next day the Rangers read them the riot act and the they moved on. The funny thing was the three days prior to us getting in, the park was closed due to them doing some back burning. So not only did they ignore who was camped in what spot but had driven into the park when it was closed.

Sometimes I wonder why we follow rules and directions when it appears many others just adopt the "R **** it" attitude.