Going to Old Telegraph Track

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Hi all, today Sunday 24th May, we are leaving Weipa before 10am (check out time) and driving back out to the Cape Development road and to Bramwell station which is basically a fuel and food stop. It is also the formal start to the Old Telegraph Track known as the OTL. We took a couple of photos at the entrance to the track and headed into the track. About 5 km in we reached our first obstacle. Palm creek had a nearly vertical entrance (looked vertical to me but probably wasn't) and this also had a very steep exit which was winch up only. No cars are able to get up without a winch. I decided to not attempt this. Tonina and Lisa were with me. Matthew was brave enough to attempt and was successful. Very proud to see him make this test. Paul would have attempted it but would not leave me to drive back alone. We therefore separated from Matthew and his family and we went back to the development road and took basically a chicken track. You can all call me chicken but I would rather that then stress about the Troopy. This was around 3pm. We were able to meet again at around 6pm at a creek called Gunshot. As an aside Tracey and Xavier had stayed back in Weipa for an extra day as they did not want to attempt the OTT with a camper trailer. A wise decision. We will meet up again with Xavier and Tracey tomorrow at a waterfall called Fruit bat falls

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