Feathers and Friends 12./8. - 15./8.

Tropical, lush, lovely Daintrees. Stayed 3 days at this not so little gem. Did visit the Mossman Gorge with a few hundred others.
During our stay at Les and Carol‘s place we discovered an ever increasing noise from both front suspensions and they now starting the loose fluid. This means we have to avoid all the planned back roads in the  Daintree as they are dirt/4WD roads. The car is booked in at the Brisbane Mercedes workshop for 2 days. We will explore alternatively lovely areas South of Brisbane with new suspension. HE was not all that surprised since this is our 3.rd trip on rough roads.

Images along the road

Karumba 10./08.

have arrived in Karumba for the obligatory Barra and Beer and sunset at the local pub. The previous night we stayed at Little Byroe river which recovered from recent floods, eroding the banks substantially. The flood covered an area of 60sq km. Karumba was about enjoying being a tourist.

Leichhardt river and waterfall 8./8.

Hello Petunia,

After a gruelling 4 1/2 hr. Trip on National Highway1, the Carpentaria Hway. which is corrugated, has steep water crossings, bull dust and dust clouds, we kept going for another 5 hours to arrive at the Leichardt river and Falls. Road was partly dirt, partly bitumen. THEY chose the Carpentaria Hway which supposed to take 14hrs and HE did it in (see above). The other option would have been to go all the way back through  Mt. Isa in order to visit another fishing hub at the Gulf of Carpentaria called Karumba.

At about lunchtime we crossed the NT./Qld. border.

Borroloola 7./08.o

Hi family,
Had a lovely trip along the mainly dirt road to  Borroloola, a sleepy touristy fishing town. As we are both not into angling one night was  enough. SHE liked the name so much so that THEY decided to visit. It is situated about 35km inland from the ocean. We had of course Barra and Beer in the local restaurant, the Carpentaria Grill, a tin shed serving mates plates of fresh Barramundi. THEY flushed it down with Coopers Ale as she couldn’t face the xxxx cans on offer.

Mardukal No.2 campsite (Kakadu)

Did a bit of sightseeing but were put off the amount of people visiting every site. Some of them THEY had already seen about 10 years ago. So the decision was made camp for 2 nights at camp no 2 at Mardukal. Totally secluded camp site, luxurious showers and super clean toilets.

Kakadu images