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A Hard Place part 1

This trip to Cape York Peninsula was a joint idea of me and my brother, Jim. He left the logistics to me, but wanted to take Macca (Ian McDonald) with him.
Jim picked up Macca at the Alice Springs (he travelled down from Darwin), and next morning we were to head off to Tennant Creek, but Jim wanted to leave some items with some friends until his return, and said he would catch up. I topped up with fuel, and headed out of town, thinking all the while Jim was behind me. We still had radio contact I told Jim “to keep coming” (thinking he was still behind me), but as I waited outside Alice, his signal faded away to nothing. I travelled on a bit but the signal never returned. I thought then that Jim must be somewhere behind me, so I turned back, calling him all the while with no response. I called his mobile and Sat-phone, both off, or out of range. My dilemma was, if I proceeded to Tennant Creek not finding him, we would be in a bit of a bind. At least in Alice I still had mobile coverage so I could keep trying to call him. So I waited in Alice till Jim switched on his Sat-phone, which he finally did at Tea-Tree roadhouse.
Camp eight, Leichardt Falls, we saw some spots where others were camping; spotting some wheel tracks leading back to the river we stumbled upon the perfect place to spend the night. I had to shift away a bit after Macca lit his camp-fire next to my car, but Jim was to remark that “this is what it’s all about,” he even made his first cake in the camp oven, which was nice, although a bit heavy.
The train ride on the Gulflander from Normanton to Croydon was one on my ‘bucket list’ for this trip and necessitated a lay day in Normanton, which was good and we had a leisurely meal in the pub for lunch, and got some laundry done.
Jim's rattle under the bonnet was getting worse; the corrugations on the Southern Bypass track finally took their toll on the rubber mounts for the shockers (top mounting, both front shockers). Jim wanted to ‘soldier on’ to the Jardine Ferry crossing for the night. I suggested we stop for the night, have a bit of a think, and try to get around the problem. With all the bashing I was worried the body panel used for the top shocker mounting would be destroyed, and then we really would be in trouble. We camped at another magic location, and found we could not remove the top mounting bolt of the shocker, we needed a rattle gun, which is how the mechanic in Bamaga replaced the rubber mounts. In the meanwhile we came up with the idea of wrapping wire around the shocker shaft, to act as a brace. This was to work a treat; we could have travelled home like it. The mechanic at Bamaga said he sees this sort of thing all the time.
We travelled to the tip the day we arrived at Seisia, We filmed our bit, chucked our rocks, took some pictures, and then we sat on a rock. We were happy to be finally here, at the northernmost tip of the Australian mainland.

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Water Road

When travelling on the Kennedy Development Road between Hughenden and the Lynd Junction a thunderstorm crossed the road a few K's in front of me......

Gary the goat goes to boot camp on the way to Bamaga.

Great form Gary!

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Dancing at the Top Pub in Thursday Island

It was getting late at the Torres Strait Pub in Thursday Island and the girls were the centre of attention.

If BAYWATCH was filmed in AUSTRALIA

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Little girl lost: What happened to Alimah Bowia?

EXCLUSIVE : 55 years after her disappearance... a Fijian woman named Flosy Ganier claims she is Alimah Bowia, the 8 year old daughter of Daisy and Joseph Bowia, who mysteriously vanished from Thursday Island in 1962. Her cousin Milton Savage and his friend Charles Passi go to Fiji to meet Flosy face to face and determine ... is she? Or isn't she Alimah Bowia? NITV's Nancia Guivarra has the story for 'The Point'.

HOW DEEP IS YOUR LOVE?

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WHY JIMBO IS NOT SELLING OUT and WHO HE'D VOTE FOR IN THE U.S ELECTIONS

FIXING The Vadyna, FULLFILLING merch orders and FINDING Yowie's

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Corrugations: Why they destroy vehicles (inc slow motion) AKA: washboard road

A look at corrugations in the Australian outback, including some super slow motion footage showing why they regularly destroy vehicles and trailers. In the USA, these are known as washboard roads.

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Cape York Adventure - 4x4, fishing, more

Our adventure from Brisbane to Cape York.
***EDIT ON THE YEAR - 2015 not 2017 -
Day 1. Brisbane to Mackay
Day 2. Mackay to Babinda
Day 3. Babinda to Lions Den
Day 4. Lions Den to Cape Melville
Day 5. Cape Melville to Coen
Day 6. Coen to Old Telegraph Track (just past Gunshot Creek)
Day 7. OTT to Seisa
Day 8. Relaxing in Seisia
Day 9. Fishing
Day 10. Seisia to Cape York
Day 11. Punsand Bay
Day 12. Punsand Bay
Day 13. Punsand Bay to Musgrave
Day 14. Musgrave to Babinda
Day 15. Babinda to Airlie Beach
Day 16. Airlie Beach to Double Island
Day 17. Double Island
Day 18. Duble Island to Brisbane

Day 1.
We made our way to Mackay not stopping for anything.

Day 2.
We had driven from Mackay to Babinda (just south of Cairns) after stopping to do a big food shop in Townsville.

Day 3.
We drove from Babinda to the Lions Den via the CREB track.

Day 4.
After some fishing at the Lions Den early that morning we left for Cooktown. After stocking up on our last few essentials we made our way out to Cape Melville via Battlecamp road. Unfortunately, we never made it to Cape Melville the same day. It took us about 6 hours to drive 100km due to the amount of wash-outs, switch backs and fallen trees on the road. We pulled up camp about 30 mins from Cape Melville for the night.

Day 5
From our overnight stay we drove out to Cape Melville, tried our luck at some fishing there. We had lunch before making our way onto Coen.

Day 6
After staying out the back of the Coen pub for the night we moved on further towards the tip, making it onto the Old Telegraph Track. After assessing Gunshot creek, we decided to do Gunshot #2 as the main entrance to Gunshot was going to be difficult to get our cars through. The chicken track over to the side was very swampy and we had been told by people camping on the creek that they had broken a winch trying to recover from the swamp. The Bypass track was too far back and so we pushed forward, staying at a campsite on the next creek after Gunshot.

Day 7
We made our way off the Telegraph Track and came into Fruitbat and Elliot Falls. After spending about 3 hours swimming there and relaxing we decided it was time to hit the road and keep moving North. Using the Peninsular development road (PDR) we came the Jardine river and caught the ferry across to the other side. We made our way to Bamaga where we stocked up on food for the remaining week that we had up the top before setting up camp in Seisia.

Day 8
We spent the day relaxing at Seisia and organised a hire boat for the next day.

Day 9
We picked up the hire boat and went out onto the water for day, bringing home 5 nice sized fish that we gave to the locals.

Day 10
We drove from Seisia holiday park to the Tip. After reaching the tip the Prado had a few problems and had to return home. After reorganizing some of the gear, the Hilux and the Patrol continued to adventure around the Eastern side of the tip and checked out the 5 Beaches track and then returning to Punsand Bay for the night's stay.

Day 11
Spent the day relaxing in Punsand bay. I had to go back to the hospital in Bamaga to have my foot checked out after a nasty fishing incident a couple days before.

Day 12
Spent the day relaxing in Punsand Bay.

Day 13
It was time to start heading home. We drove from Punsand bay and made it as far south as Musgrave. Cooking a nice spaghetti for dinner and setting up camp for the night.

Day 14
With full tanks we drove from Musgrave to Laura, stocking up again on some essentials for food and then continuing onto Coach Road on our way out to Maytown. There wasn't too much left in Maytown. From Maytown we made our way back out to the black top and traveled back down to set up camp at Babinda.

Day 15
From Babinda we headed down to Airlie beach for a relaxing night after a long day of driving.

Day 16-18
From Airlie we drove down to Double Island to enjoy the last few days of our holiday on the beach before returning home to Brisbane.

HALLOWEEN IN BUNDABERG

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ROCKHAMPTON'S LOVE OF BULL STATUES

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Welcome to Cairns

Anzac day morning 2011. Woken up by these drunks who were ripping off pailings from the pub fence. Notice the guy who suddenly covered his face.

The Royal Hotel in DUNGOG

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