What a relaxing holiday. After hour time camping up the cape we were realy looking forward to our "resort " holiday. Nowhere to stay the first night and difficulty finding any reasonable vacancies that were cheap enough for our budget we took pot luck with the surprise accomodation on WOTIF $124. In antisipation we wondered where we would be staying, to our surprise it was the Shreaton Mirage. Pop and Jo joined us for a drink to celebrate. The next 4 nights we...

We had our last 2 nights camping in our swags here at Undarra Volcanic Larva Tubes. Here we meet two lovely families who's chldren Lotte and Archie loved playing with. Lotte so much not wanting to do anything but go back and play with Matilda. Walking around the rim of a 190,000 year old volcano and imagining life here that long ago then Archie spotting a snake allowed for an very interesting morning. Next for the afternoon we had a tour to the volcanic larva t...

Yet to completed Arriving at Karumba straight away we felt the relaxed feeling about the town after 2 long days on gravel tracks. Back in "grey nomad heaven". We caught up on some school work then had a look around town. Best quality and priced fish and chips we have ever had at Ash's. A big call but believe it true. On the last night we decided to do as the tourists do and get fish and chips and watch the sunset. Well we were joined by several kites flying o...

Due to lack of service and opportunity to access the blog we all wrote a poem to summerise our time here at Cape York. Our Cape York Penisular Poem Staying at Umagico, we slept with the beach at arms reach, We headed to the "tip" but were unable to have a dip. Up here the coast has a lot to boast, We caught some fish and made a gourmet dish, $20 for a huge fresh cray, we would love to stay. Lotte was in heaven patting the camp mutts -all eleven. At So...

Deparing Weipa for our final leg north on the East Coast. this area Cape York Peninsular was something both Tim and Melrose were looking forward to. We drove from Weipa to Elliot Falls. The last 10km we went on the Telegraph Track which is well renown for its roughness, water crossings and is only for 4x4. this was our first real water crossing where we stopped and contemplared the risk of loosing the ute or and the boat. After watching a couple of other vehicle...