Cape York Adventure 2021 Part 1

so we set off to the pilbara western australia we had a south australian and northern territory border passes and because we had planned to travel along the garry junction road we also needed three permits to travel through aboriginal land this first campsite uh it's very cold and especially being in the top tent and so in the morning it's an early start and get onto it try to get north as soon as possible we're a couple hundred kilometers from coopedy yeah we found this lovely spot just behind the sand dunes just off the main highway lovely place to stay for tonight but still very cold before we got to south australia there was still a little bit of doubt if our permit was um okay but when we got there the police said well the borders the south australian government had opened up the borders anyway so that was no problem so that was all good there's a national park just before alice springs um so we decided we'd uh camp there overnight um very lovely place we kept going up through the dry river bed and found this particular spot all was going well but by the time we got the alice springs and covered and hit darwin so because the threat of western australia closing its borders and the possibility of having to do some sort of quarantining we decided to change your plans and head east to queensland and have a cape york adventure [Music] done [Music] so now we're making our way to queensland as quickly as possible along the plenty highway but at night time it is unbearably freezing so we need to try to head north as quick as we can as well [Music] the plenty is uh pretty good but um it's pretty good in terms of heading east very quickly but uh it's graphing some spots so this is the plenty road we've stopped to let out more air the cars are three and a half ton plus go down there at rear and 20th front see what that's like 20. [Music] we were thinking of turning left off the plenty highway and travel along the sand over highway we decided uh now we'll continue along the petty highway uh ride up to very close to the queensland border and then turn left up this track towards a town called euren dangie [Music] so we've just crossed the border for good this trap here comes up from highway and it actually crosses the border comes back sort of follows the border up now i've just gone through the proper border crossing [Music] yeah you're in dangers uh not just a small community uh it does have fuel there but um we really just wanted some water um we met a lovely lady in the um in the store there pam and got talking to her about various things uh and she was just gonna give us some free soft drink but yeah we were gonna pay for it um she was uh very kind and uh letting us have uh some of the water [Music] uh we pulled in to get the water just around the um the side of the the shop there and uh it was all these little aboriginal kids just wandering around everywhere uh very very funny [Music] do [Music] a little further along the road we stopped at a uh dry riverbed uh it's toby's creek and uh thankfully um we finally got some warmer weather [Music] still heading north the tracks around here were sometimes buried and we ended up in some farmers paddocks [Music] anyway we decided to pinch some of the cows water and fill up our washing machine bag this is a great way of you know doing your laundry uh and just let the jiggling of the car do the work so thanks uh to mr farmer and his cows [Music] [Music] so we're traveling on a very remote and channel type track from ranji to camo wheel definitely not a tourist track um but interesting that there's nothing here and julie's driving [Music] the road is pretty good we're traveling well the grids i'm gonna slow right here for [Music] we stopped along the road side here to have uh lunch there's all these dead carcasses of cows around and there were cow yards close by and we figured that when the animal died they just came over here and shoved them into a pile so they can pick one out just before camera wheel we stumbled across this great little place that had these um sinkholes [Music] darkness [Music] splash [Music] wow wow slow continually dissolving and evolving the shape of the cake because pythons frogs and invertebrates and fungi all survive in the cave's desks ghostbats live here too oh look at that look at that it's got a dragonfly clean don't slip over looks like it's really slippery this is clean the penis and the anus the vaginas i don't have a vagina pristine water that has most likely huge quantities of cow saliva and nevermind that's a great idea joel i mean how civilized is that [Music] it is definitely the land of the cow out here just thousands upon thousands of cows uh this particular billabong here was um a place where they all came down to to drink and then um then clear off back out into the nowhere [Music] this is a view from our top tent that's a nice view to wake up with in the morning [Music] these um stones are something that julie was collecting she reckons that they're um you know aboriginal spearheads so um i was in doubt these supposed spearhead stones they were all over the place but apparently she was right so we've just uh come along a track from camo wheel uh up towards burke along the way there's a national park called lawn hill national park we actually wanted to come up with dirt road from carrier wheel but that was closed due to flooding and we were told on the phone by the queensland traffic people that this track was also closed and i think it probably was but as we passed by on the barclay highway we noticed that there was no closed sign there so we thought we'd take a gamble and come up we're pretty sure we can get through the track uh a lot of it was uh uh so far uh a very good bitumen road and um it was just a few okay back there that we've found um yeah just a gravel road it's pretty good some parts are a little bit hairy um going into river crossings etc you just have to slow down for them a nice little river called thornton river it's just a dry river um yeah we're just packing up so okay we just stopped on this road to lawn hill national national park and we've dropped the tires down now to 20 at the front 30 at the back sections of this track are pretty rough sections are very corrugated we're gonna watch the dips where the watercourses are they can get you unstuck so we're just going up this um access track a maintenance track up to a pylon i thought we might better get a good view up this hill here just a full drive i might put my rear lockers on [Music] [Music] [Applause] foreign this is all the riverslee area [Applause] so yeah we stopped at gregory river and had a splash around absolute beautiful place [Music] it's a cold let's go down here right right it's just beautiful so [Music] then we moved on to um further north to the rivers lee fossils and explore around there so is this all just pretend unsure along there you can see evidence of gigantic birds and crocodiles that used to live around there but we met the ranger there he was telling us along with other people as well that um lord hill national park is very very popular uh it can be very busy and of course we had no idea about that we're just sort of stumbling up and way up so we decided that we would um camp just before it uh to get there early in the morning which we did do we got there at eight o'clock in the morning and that was a good idea [Music] no frogs no plenty of crickets [Music] this is the road coming into lawn hill quite a lovely area one more the road that's immediately going into the national park looks like it had just been made so quite a nice bitumen road [Music] this is a lawn hill national park an absolutely spectacular place to visit arrest that woman and it's an amazing place we were coming up some very lonely deserty arid type tracks and then you stumble onto this oasis so we got there at eight o'clock in the morning and um you know there's not many people around at all at that time [Music] oh [Music] it's very popular for kayaks so when the kayaks get to this dead end they use this ramp to haul their kayak up and over into the next river system there's plenty of walks to do and and of course swimming and you get into these lush areas to explore and really you probably need half a day at least if not more i mean we would definitely go back in even though it is busy [Music] it was getting pretty busy and as you can see by the car park how busy it did get you

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Length: 26min 16sec (1576 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 22 2021