Brendans Travels

We drove up a goat track!, This track, we were on, looked like it hadn't been used in years, thru sandy creek crossings - Wayne got stuck here but everyone else went thru ok.we went a different way. There was a long muddy track which was deep and had a very bad smell, Shirley got stuck here & Jim had to go back in to help pull her out, we were still waiting to go..we made it . In between this boggy area was some green patches with large trees along billabongs which were very pretty.

We camped at Saltwater Creek in Lakefield National Park along a sandy creek bed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I did some fishing and caught a Barramundi yahoo!, even my big brother Chris hasn't caught one of these !,but it was too small to keep, only about 40cm, so I had to let him go.I caught 4 fish in total.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There were thousands of crickets and Rocket frogs at the camp site.

We packed up our gear wet as it was still raining - yuck I don't like this.

We drove to Archer River for morning tea, I did a bit of fishing but again..no luck. Some of the others did some work on their cars.

We drove up the hill to the roadhouse & had a famous Archer River hamburger for lunch, I don't really think there is anything special about them, but after camp cooking for a few days, they taste great. While we were eating a man left the gate open & two cheeky cows came in to eat the green grass, it was funny to watch everyone trying to chase them out.

We were stopped at a fruit quarantine station where a man checked our fruit & vegetable we had in the car - everything was ok.

We made it to a town called Coen for the night & set up our tents.It is still nice and warm here & the sun doesn't set until around 6 - 6.30 so I went with Wayne to a local waterhole for a swim - no croc's!.

 

 

 

 

 

 

When we got back everyone went to the local cafe for tea then made our way over to the well known Exchange Hotel for a friendly drink and chat with the local people

I got up early to go fishing, no luck.

We drove thru the Pasco river, George & Phil had to be snatched out.

We stopped at a place called Portlands Road for lunch, there was a small cafe & they had a big Green Tree Frog living there.

We made our way along the dirt roads to Chilli Beach, this was really windy & smelly, we didn't stay long even though we were supposed to camp there.

We continued further along the road crossing the Pasco River again at a different point, we didn't like the campsite so we went further along down to the Wenlock river.

 

 

 

We couldn't find enough space for all of us so, Wayne. Peter & us camped along the shallow creek & the others along a small billabong. We had a nice camp fire until it started to rain.

We woke up, very early, as the wind was still blowing hard. Everyone wanted to leave as soon as possible! We drove back to the main road, and had morning tea at Bramwell Station Roadhouse, then we continued on and headed off down the "Frenchman's Track". This was very rough, and along the way, Dad noticed that our wheel carrier, on the back of the car, had broken! This needed to be welded to fix, so Dad just tied it up, and we continued on. There were some very steep sections and a bit slippery, but we made it through to our bush campsite, on the banks of the Pasco River. I went fishing and I caught my first fish, on the trip, which was a red eyed barramundi oh yeah !!!

Dad, and Jim, connected two car batteries together, and re-welded the latch on the spare wheel carrier.

We had a nice campfire, and Pam cooked a damper on it. It was Yummy.

The river, wasn't too deep at the crossing so we washed most of the cars... They didn't stay clean for long

 

 

 

 

 

Peter had got his parts, and fixed his car. He turned up later at night. He had a little trouble finding us, but we could hear him on the UHF radios, so we guided him to the camp

Today we left Seisia,  it was really good here, I liked the names on the toilets. Man-Goes, and No Man-Goes 

We drove to Usher Point where we drove along the beach, below the high tide mark. We found lots of interesting things washed up on the beach, we stopped a few times to look at them, we saw boat buoys, thousands of thongs, a wheel barrow, a kayak - dad was upset as we couldn't fit it on the roof, even a pair of ripped jeans, It just goes to show that was goes down the drain washes up somewhere.

We found some caves that were created by the storms & had hundreds of bats living in them.

 

 

 

 

Two of our trip mates got stuck in a sandy creek area & we had to help get them out we had to rush as the tide was coming in quickly, some of the places we had to drive over were sharp rock areas which had oysters growing on them.

 

We made it to Captain Billy's Landing.

 

 

 

 

 

It was very windy. We set up our campsite behind the sand dunes to get a bit of protection, it didn't help much, Mum didn't sleep at all.

Today was a rest day where everyone could do their own thing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We visited a few of the WW2 plane wreck crash sites which are through out the bush . We saw an old DC-3 , old fuel dumps & the remains of the Beaufort Bomber.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We bought lunch and went to a place called Loyalty beach to eat before heading back to camp to relax and get things ready for tomorrow.

Today we left to make make our way to the Most Northern tip of Australia.

We stopped at  the Croc Shop which sells lots of souvenirs.

We stopped at the Punsand Bay resort to look at the beach area.

We parked the cars and climbed up a rocky hill to make our way to the actual spot. The waters were really blue. I t was overcast & windy.

We had photo's taken and walked back to the car park on the beach and had lunch.

We then went for a drive along some of the beaches, one of them had lots of interesting things washed up on to it.

We then drove to some of the inland lakes for a look before coming back to camp.

At night a big barge came in which was loaded with supplies for the town & also cars & caravans of people who didn't want to drive this far.

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We went over Cyprus Creek and did a log crossing.

We Crossed two deep creeks, Logan & Nolan, where we had to have a tarp over the front the car to help stop water getting in to the engine. The water was very deep & I could touch it out the window.

We crossed the Jardine river by another ferry and drove to Seisia where we are camping for three nights.

There are bush Turkeys running around the tents.

We had owls  come and visit us above our tent.