Cape York - Friday 5 th June Hi all, today was a special day. Xavier and I went out for an early morning fish on the Tinny. It was the first time we had fished together on the boat. Well what an interesting fishing trip. I caught an enormous 105cm Queen fish. OMG. It was even attacked by a shark as I was pulling it in. It was the most exciting thing that has happened to me on this trip. Even better than catching the shark the night before. That was the start to a very peaceful day. On the same boat trip we caught 10 or small Queen fish. Anyhow, we decided today to leave this beach camp tomorrow morning. We tried to catch more sharks tonight but no luck. Got lots of bites but ... read more

Cape York - Wednesday 3rdJune Ok here we go. We woke up at the Seisa park at 5.30am and we had to pack three cars. Left the park at 9.50am. I really would have thought we could all pack up in less time but we didn't. Tracey is just so slow when she is half asleep. I made sure I woke her up early by pretending to be a horse and shaking her trailer camper. She still calls me a pest. Once packed we went to Bamaga to do some shopping. Bread, milk, biscuits, water, soft drink etc etc. off we went to Mutee Heads. We were still a little bit shy of open air bush camping due to the extreme rain experience we encountered early this week but the forecast did not have rain so ... read more

Hi all, well today it rained and when I say rain I mean real heavy rain. one of the cape york tour guides reckons in 25 years he has never seen rain at this time of the year. Anyhow we ended up playing cards under our Hut. We have a hut at the Seisa park. It is basically a veranda with a sink and lights. Very cosy when it rains. Anyhow the rain stopped, sort of at around 3pm. We took the opportunity to go to the local pier and found the Toll ship berthing on the sand and lowering its boom door to allow the forklifts to get onto the ships, a little bit if sand driving and getting stuck and very little health and safety and all of the weeks supplies were offloaded. Very ... read more

Hi all, a very busy day today. The group split up today. Matthew and his family headed back to Mutee Heads to try their luck fishing that spot, remembering he was not successful the day before. The rest of us did some checking out spots for camping. We went to Alau beach camp. It was run down and not very appealing. Took this off the list. Second was back to Punsand Bay. It was a great camp. Good restaurant, good accommodation spots right on the beach And only 1 or 2 km from the Tip. we also looked at Loyalty beach. Not impressed with that one either. We had a lunch at Punsand Bay. In the afternoon Xavier took Tonina and Tracey for a little tinny ride just for fun. Well it turned out to be ... read more

Cape York Thursday 28th May Hi all, today is the day. Our plan to get to the tip of cape York and finally get to our original destination, the most Northern Point of the Australian mainland. We had a couple of destinations to get to before we make the final walk to the tip. First we had a look at three planes that had crashed during world war 2. None of these planes crashed due to enemy activity. I assume they crashed due to either mechanical failure or pilot error. There were three crashes. One was a DC3 and the second was a bomber. Both wrecks were in the same spot they had crashed. Obviously we did not deal with crashes in those days as we do now. The site has been left to the elements ... read more