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Published: September 7th 2013
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B2 the superhero 4wd rescues a dump truck and his trailerBrian and Vick made us feel really welcome. They are a great couple with a loving family and a great life. They are really Happy and laid back always with fantastic new music artists playing in the background. They are a very cool couple. I am so glad we got the chance to see them. Time to leave for the Cape. And the weather is setting in. Leaving Cairns behind we made our way along the coast road past lovely beaches and coves. Stopped in at port Douglas to replenish supplies. Port Douglas very posh... Ooh la la. Just like Noosa no different.A howling wind whips up
the salt haze and choppy conditions on the waters make them brown and ugly. I know how beautiful this coastline can be, gorgeous even and it was a bit annoying to see it on a not so good day. We had to use our imagination.We head towards Mossman because I remember seeing the Mossman Gorge and know it is really picturesque. Four kilometers we came from the turn off to find in the middle of the road, a boom gate. I remembered the last time I was there you could drive right up to the gorge and do a very short walk in. The road directed us into this bright shiny, large indigenous cultural centre. The walk into the gorge would cost us $50 each. I figured we saw enough gorges in cairns and kuranda for free and didn't need to pay$100 for to see this one.<br style="color: font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px;
line-height: 18.88888931274414px;" />So we headed off to the Daintree River ferry crossed the river and we were on our way to Cape Tribulation, the Bloomfield Track and a great four wheel driving adventure. For my friends who are following very close behind leaving the south east on the fifth. DO NOT READ THIS. All bar two creeks on the entire length of the cape trib, cedar bay, wujal wujal to cooktown is easily accessible by a two wheel drive. About 75 % of the road has a brand new seal of bitumen. It's fantastic if you want to get somewhere fast.The scenery is absolutely beautiful - this is after all the wet tropics area world heritage listed. The beautiful coastline where the towering Mountains of rainforest kiss the beaches and the oceans. But you know what the inland ranges that scarp almost vertical to lush green grassy plains are just as good. They were exquisite, isolated and really grand.Wujal wujal us a quiet little sleepy hollow, very neat, well looked after and everyone takes pride in their houses. The community housing is really well cared for. This info is for your info brother Brian ( who was the fnq Director of public housing). After Wujal Wujal (pronounced Woojaal Woojaal and not Woodgel wood gel) we were actually on a dirt track for a little while. Coming around a corner we encountered a truck with it's trailer on the back (we are talking a big mother truck and trailer) had slid off the road and was partially in a ditch. A 4wd had arrived before us. He was a German Tourist with a snatch strap in his hand and looked quite perplexed and a little useless and told the truckie he didn't want to help tow him out. What had happened was that the truck driver could not get up the hill and was sliding all over the place on the dirt. So he decided to reverse back down and lost control on a slight bend and slid into a ditch. We arrived and Bear Grills err sorry Wayne Hayes got out of the car and said " need a hand mate". Actually he needed more than a hand both his arms were really short. Bear Hayes went to the back of B2 (trusty steed) and got the recovery gear out pulled out a chain attached it to both vehicles and pulled the truck up the hill. See forthcoming Video. It was like the solo man advertisement super cool masculine hero type effortlessly pulls truck of super tonnage weight up the hill. He gave the truck driver a salute and we drove off towards the Lions Den Hotel and camping ground. Hail the conquering Hero when we arrived at the pub... Sort of. I think the only one who acknowledged this great feat of "4 wheel drivemanship rescuing" was the guy with the snatch strap (who in no way on this earth going to be able get that truck out with that snatch strap - more likely would have snapped and smacked him in the head) who gave us a big smile and let us go before him at the counter. At the Lions Den hotel everything operates on their time and in slow motion. Service takes about fifteen minutes even if you are the only one at the bar. The Internet makes it sound pretty special but it's not and it's stinky. We kinda wished we had taken the advice of some fellow travelers who said that Homerule homestead was really good and that's just a few kms before the hotel. But the hot shower and hair wash was really welcome. We had the first night of rain and the roof top tent stood up well to the rain and gale force winds outside. I thought we might get LTL ( light tent leakage) but we didn't. Packing it up was not as easy as we had to dry it as much as possible so it wouldn't affect the bedding.
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