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Wednesday, June 02, 2010

We're nearly there !

Hi all
coming to you tonight from sunny (and HOT) Weipa ! We've been here for a couple of days indulging in some serious R & R - lounging around, reading books (have I mentioned the Millennium trilogy by Stieg Larsson yet), exploring the local area, swimming (but only in the pool at the camping ground to avoid the Crocs) and basically chilling out.
I haven't done a "proper" update yet and this is only a quick summary. Where to start ? ? ?  Our last post was from Mt Isa - nearly a week ago now. We've had to change our travel plans a couple of times during the last week because of either road closures or dodgy information about road closures.
We were originally heading up to Kingfisher Camp via Adels Grove, but Thommo got a call from an adjoining station to Kingfisher to say that that the road was closed. No probs - change the plan - stay an extra night at Mt Isa and spend another night at Adels, which was a welcome break from our tight schedule.
Thommo & Julie did an absolutely brilliant roast dinner for the whole crew at Adels. Jaynie made the gravy & David & I got into trouble for launching Dastardly Wabbit into space for some interesting night photography experiments.
Next morning, Adels to Burketown.  This is where we encountered our first Anderson plug problem - something had totally ripped out the plug and its associated wiring, which resulted in some creative thinking from Ian to get things going again in the absence of a 60 amp maxi-blade fuse.
Semi-sorted at Gregory Downs and we continued on to Normanton & Karumba.
Our original plan was to head from Karumba to Dunbar Station and then north, but with uncertainty about the roads and a day up our sleeves, we headed east across the base of the Cape to David's relo's place in the Atherton Tablelands.David's parents, Bob & Lorraine,  met up with us for a fabulous BBQ and a night in totally different climactic conditions from over in the west. The pics will show what I mean !!!
 Our journey up the Cape finally started from the east rather than the west.
Apologies because this has been something of a rushed update tonight - there's a lot more to show and tell - including Leichardt Falls and last night's dinner at the Weipa Bowling Club.
We leave in the morning to head north to the tip.
I finally sorted out Picassa web albums and have started to upload some pics.
Next update hopefully soon - . . . . stay with us ;-))
Some more pics that I'm progressively uploading, are at http://picasaweb.google.com/mickhines

1 comment:

Sue said...

Sounds like you're having a great adventure. Foggy and frosty down here! Had a quick look at some of your pics (report-writing time here - not time to do much of anything else - what beautiful countryside!

Stay safe :-) sue xox