Blogs from Coen, Queensland, Australia, Oceania

The weather didn't do Captain Cook justice.Meh this weather is giving me the shits. And I think we have both gone off - a bit like three day old fish - we are tired and probably been traveling too fast.... read more

We left the Eliott falls after having a lovely swim in the morning when we had the falls all to ourselves once again. As we got onto the road and we saw we had another 110km to get to Bramwell Junction, which was the next place to get fuel and we were running low. This is pretty bad position to be in considering where we were! Now we had lost the Mo Jo we had to rely on Tank alone and Shenton free wheeling down any big hills which is quite difficult given the tracks! We pushed it all the way past the Empty sign but we did make it, thankfully, I really did not fancy walking to Bramwell with the can to pick up fuel. After Bramwell we had another 200km to get to Coen ... read more

DAY 340 The night had cooled quite considerably, it has not been this cold in a while, so migrated into sleeping bags leaving the blanket and sheet over the top for extra warmth. Sun was streaming into the tent, it was early but we were warm so getting out of bed too early was not so tempting. I think it was about 7.00 when we finally surfaced, the first thing being as ever that first cup of tea of the day. A nice slow start to the day as we moved the chairs into the shade and then Charlie joined us for a chat, telling us tales from his 35 years on his gold mine. His story is riddled with politics, not to mention people trying it on in order to swipe the land from under ... read more