East Coast South to North

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Tuesday 19th July 2011 Weipa Rest Day

Today we’ve been for a drive around the “suburbs” of Weipa. It is a strangely spread out town, as if when they designed it they said “Here we shall be the dwellings, here the business centre, and here the industrial area, none too close to the other” and then over the years the bits in between have been filled in higgledy piggledy. We drove out to the long one-lane bridge out to the mining area. It is give way to traffic already on the bridge, with a bay in the middle where a vehicle can pull over to let another past. There are huge speed humps at either end made of layers of old mine truck tyres, to slow traffic down on the approaches – it works! We drove on over another single lane bridge and out to the turn-off to Mapoon. On the way back, we went on the road out to Red Beach, came to a creek crossing near the beach which looked a bit rough. As we were alone, we decided not to proceed, and also not to get out and walk to the beach as it looked croc-ish. Phil and Paul stopped here earlier and walked down on to the beach where they met some fishermen and saw a big croc basking on a sandbar 200 metres away! I have been trying to upload photos for my blog in our Weipa cabin, but internet is slow and patchy so not much joy!

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Photos

And More of Group 1...
They were a large group compared with Group 2's 5 or 6 vehicles!

In the Weipa campsite
Atticus Catticus would be proud of this

The long, long bridge going north
If you look closely, there's a truck waiting at the far end