We went for a drive this morning across to Mutee Head. It is a very pretty beach and would be lovely to camp there even though there were no facilities at all there. We drove on a bit further towards the point where the Jardine River meets the ocean so we could go fishing. The guys let their tyres down and played in the sand along the tracks. Joe was a bit more adventurous and went down on the beach and got stuck!! Joe and Colin said that they were preparing th...

Up early this morning to meet the boat to go to Thursday Island. We had a lovely one and a half hour boat ride and arrived there about 9.30. We booked a 2 hour bus ride around the area. Firstly we went to the top of the hill to look at the defence fortifications against the Russians. Colin and I got a bit side tracked and forgot to go back to the bus in time, too busy looking at the views from the top. We then went to the Japanese Pearlers grave site. All very in...

After an early start ,we left behind the beautiful waterholes & falls of Canal Creek. Our next destination, Loyalty Beach, it's near Seisia on the coast. We travelled the Developmental Road, it's wide, red and corrugated rattling our fillings. It also has a lot more traffic, one thing we have all noticed on the telly track and the Developmental road was no wild life other than birds. We reached the Jardine river crossing about 10.00 and after filling up w...

Up early to complete the Telegraph track which we decided to do without our campers as there was to be quite a lot of water ahead of us and we had already drowned one fridge. Heading off, the first crossing we came to was Canal Creek just above our camp site. It was one of our easier crossings only a small amount of water, it was quite a rocky ford with some pot holes. The terrain changed many times before we reached Sam's creek (we walked all creeks before e...

A lay day was decided upon in preparation for the second half of the OTT. Everyone packed and fixed followed by a long soak in the Creek. Joe went off up the creek with snorkel and goggles to look for crocodiles, lucky for the crocodiles he didn't find any. The evening was spent sitting around the camp fire have a few cold ales and listening to country and western.