Blogs from Weipa, Queensland, Australia, Oceania

A coolish morning ( relatively speaking) . The staff have jumpers on. We had breakfast, paid our drinks tab and then watched Gary put out feed for the birds. 4 Brolgas came in, a whistling kite and a kingfisher. We said our goodbyes and set off. Our first stop was Musgrave. the site of an Old Telegraph Station. The only one that has been preserved. Gravel road to Coen - good condition as it had just been graded. Many sections are sealed. We went over the Great Dividing range, 3620 kms long. We passed some dams that had been built by the Roads Dept to be used for grading and ultimately bitumen. Stopped at Coen for morning tea and visited the local museum. 3G available so caught up on news. Archer roadhouse built in 1983 in ... read more

Hi all, today is Saturday and we packed up from Mutee Heads to head back towards Weipa. This is the start of our journey back to Melbourne but we still have a week left us here so we will spend a couple of nights at Weipa and then travel down South and stay 3 nights at Port Douglas. before we left Xavier, Matthew and Mason went for one last fish on the Tinny at 6 am. They came back smiling as they caught two big Queen Fish. It is important at this point for me to highlight that both fish were not as big as the one I caught. I still hold the record for the largest fish caught by our group for the whole holiday period. I make sure I remind them all every chance ... read more

Cape York Friday 22nd May Today started with some fishing again. My grandson Cohen caught a beautiful salmon. The one and only for the trip so far. Very proud boy he was. Mid morning, Xavier and Tracey went out on the little tinny we have and the rest went exploring the coast with the four wheel drives. We were in walkie talkie communication with Tracey. She ended up catching 2 mackerel and Xavier caught none. While he was fishing we ended up finding a secluded camp spot that had a set of swings and tables and chairs made of the timber surrounds. Also found a washed up fishing net floater the size of my car. Matthew dragged it behind his ute back to our camp. With this being our third full day my batteries are starting ... read more

Hi all. It has been a few days since the last blog as we have been so remote there has been no service. I will now be posting four blogs, one for each day Since Wednesday. This blog is for Wednesday 20th. Cape york Wednesday 20th May Pennefather beach Today started off an easy day. We woke up as the sun was rising. Started packing the cars and also had one last real shower before going bush. We left the Weipa caravan park at around 9am. We drove to the local Woolies supermarket to re stock and then filled up with fuel. We left Weipa at around 10am. To get to the beach camp we were looking for we needed to drive through a couple of mine leases. These are roads you can use but they ... read more

1-8-11 Happy Birthday Dennis. We packed up & stored the van at Lakeland & took off to Cooktown. Cooktown is an old town which is spread out; we stocked up on a few essentials & had a look around at the Wharf & Beach. We then had the best fish & chips for lunch. We took off on the Battle Creek Road, all dirt & river crossings. We stopped at Isabella Falls & Normanby River, before heading to Laura for the night. It’s just a campground with toilets & showers $20 a night. 2-8-11 From Laura we stopped at Hann River Roadhouse, where there was a pink & blue chook & lots of birds. We then stopped at Musgrave, Coen & then onto Archer River Roadhouse, $20 a night & a nice grassy area to ... read more