Finally got access to internet this morning but it was a
fairly weak signal so were only able to post the written part of the blog. Will
go back in when signal is better to add pictures.
Last night we were visited by the wild horses, four of them,
who ran around the campground, calling loudly to each other and generally
making a mess. We had been warned they may show up and not to go near them
though some campers were trying to pet them.
We had been hoping to spot a few rare birds and residents of
the north and were lucky enough to watch a palm cockatoo feeding on the palm
seeds just outside our camper. He didn’t seem the least bit bothered with
everyone watching him until a motorcycle headed out of the camp ground. Even
then he only flew a short distance and started feeding again.
This morning we started our trek back south. We did see a
sign where if you wanted to you could arrange to have your car shipped south on
a small freighter with you as a passenger. The ship only goes out once a week
and takes two days to get down to Cairns. Not sure how much this option would
cost but must be pretty pricy.
The road is becoming very bad with washboard (corrugated) in
some places but today there was a grader trying to smooth it out. One fellow
from Tasmania that we spoke with a few days ago said he came up early in the
season as the road apparently gets even worse. You had to watch it on the
corners where you could imagine just flying off the road on top of the
washboard.
As we were driving we saw a beautiful, huge Cassowary bird run
really quickly across the road in front of us. It is apparently pretty rare to
spot these guys up here.
Unfortunately many of the park camping requires a permit booked
and purchased on line so with the limited internet access we have not been able
to do that. We did decide to drive in to Captain Billy’s Landing, one of these
parks, just to see. It was a 30 km mostly one lane often pretty rutted road through
three water holes but well worth the drive. There is lots of space to camp right
on the ocean (again no swimming due to crocs) but apparently a hefty fine is
levied if you try to camp without said permit. Not sure they would send someone
in every day to check but not prepared to take the chance so just walked on the
beach and headed back out. On the way out we spotted a monitor lizard about 2
feet long and stopped to take his picture.
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| Capt. Billy's Cove |
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| The Landing |
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| Monitor Lizard |
After this two hour side adventure we decided to stop at
Bramwell Roadhouse again as it was getting to be 4 pm and we had driven enough
for one day. The sign is from the Thursday Island Ferry. . .
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