• Cardwell
• Boulders camp ground
• Cairns
• Daintree
• Cooktown
• Walkamin
• Georgetown
• Karumba
• Bang Bang
• Gregory Downs
• Lawn Hill

After getting back to the van at Cardwell we had to do a big clean-up of all our hiking gear as very muddy and damp.

We moved on to Babinda, The Boulders campground, the sun was out for a little bit and I got to have a swim in the crystal clear river.

The Boulder's 

Queensland have got a very good system for those that want to travel around on a shoe string budget the facilities they provide are excellent for what you pay $0.

Spent the long weekend in Cairns.  The weather was not so flash some we managed some sightseeing before the rain but it kept us indoors for a bit more than we would like.

Cleared out of Cairns and headed to Daintree River Village. We did a cruise on the Daintree River spotting crocs which was pretty cool!   A great motorbike road from Cairns to Daintree along the coast.

Mmmm just a little closer

Salty on the Daintree river

Spent a day at Cape Tribulation –a very narrow windy road in but we were lucky enough to have one day without rain.  

Rain again so we decided to put a big day in and drive through to Cooktown. 

Mt Cook under cloud

Spent a couple nights in Cooktown it rained on and off (seems to be the norm).  We were hoping to climb Mt Cook but it was clouded in and would have been a waste of a massive effort. We could no longer endure the rain so we hit the bitumen again for another big day and headed back south and found a caravan park at Walkamin just outside Atherton.   A nice caravan park that the oldies loved, like a holiday away from the retirement home, nice people. We spent our time looking around the Atherton Tablelands in between showery weather more rainforests and waterfalls, didn’t see any Cassowaries or tree kangaroos but spotted a Leaf Gecko.

He is hard to spot  on the trunk of a tree

Lucky they can't see me

After having a couple of days off, we hit the road again and headed to the Savannah Way which is one of the hwy’s that take you west – termite mounds, cattle, road trains and road kill country.

Termite mounds along the Savannah Way

We took a side trip off the Savanah Way at Normanton and headed for the coast again  to try our luck at better weather at Karumba, fisho’s town on the gulf, nice sunsets, plenty of bird life. Stopped at a servo come caravan park, on the point of Karumba. Top place to watch the sun go down over the water.

After a couple nights at Karumba we headed towards Lawn Hill National Park, we had to sit out a couple of days at Gregory Downs beside the river as unable to get a site any earlier.  The river moves quite fast and if your game you can float down  and navigate between the logs, rocks and  spiky plants on the bank, I couldn’t let the 9 year olds have all the fun.

Camp Draft at Gregory Downs

After a 77 km red dirt corrugated road trip that took about 2.5 hours we are here at Lawn Hill Natiional Park. We have done all the walks on offer and got to see a fresh water croc up close. A lot of travellers have recommended to us “Ya gotta do Lawn Hill its Fabulous’, and it really is spectacular country. 

Freshie sunbaking at Lawn Hill

freshie having a swim

One of the locals

Million year old sea bed turned into rock

Sunrise over Lawn Hill National Park

Ok so that’s it for now, we‘ve covered some country since the last blog , trying to catch some decent weather, which we have finally found out West even though we had .9 degrees one morning whilst doing a 4 km walk.   Not a lot of mobile phone reception or internet reception out here just single lane bitumen roads (development roads) with a lot of hazards of either hawks, wedge tail eagles and road kill to 82 wheeled road trains that make the travelling speed quite slow.   Fuel $1.84 at Burke and Wills Road House and $2.10 at Adels Grove.  From here we will be heading over the border towards Darwin.

Hooroo

Breaky at Lawn Hill Gorge

BIG TREES UP HERE!

The Moon always looks good

I thought-it grew legs!

Don't pick Up

What you don't Know

Or else you'll get squirted
"Pack a day Hey"

PS Yes it did stink and i wore this stain for about 4 days , wouldn't come off !