Australia

Cockatoo Crossing to Jardine River
August 9, 2008 - Jardine River, Australia
From Cockatoo Crossing to the Fruit Bat Falls was easy: just one fairly easy creek crossing and then 9 km over the bypass road. The Fruit Bat Falls are falls in the Elliot Creek. Some 7 km further north are the Elliot Falls and Twin Falls, the first also in the Elliot Creek, the second in another creek streaming into the Elliot Creek. Both nice...
Placed by Hans Leenaarts in Down Under 2008

Frenchmeans Road to Cockatoo Crossing
August 8, 2008 - Cockatoo Crossing, Australia
Today I realized that there are two types of remote. One type is found on the Cape Peninsula. Cooktown is the last settlement with at least some facilities; further north there is nothing of any significance. However, there are many people traveling around, all holyday makes, very few people who live here. That large number of traveling people...
Placed by Hans Leenaarts in Down Under 2008

Cape Weymouth to Frenchmens Road
August 7, 2008 - Frenchmans Road, Australia
I made a walk on the beach just after sunrise, with the falling tide always good for a few nice photos. I then set out for Lockhart River. The Historical Site is the airfield, important during WWII, now a bitumen runway with one or two operators flying tourists in and out. The settlement itself is aboriginal, no photos allowed, but it looks like...
Placed by Hans Leenaarts in Down Under 2008

Archer River to Cape Weymouth
August 6, 2008 - Cape Weymouth, Australia
I continued traveling north and took the turn-off to Portland Roads (the name of a settlement) and Lockhart River. This is a good track, crossing ranges and descending to sea level.   I visited Batavia Goldfields, long abandoned but still with some relics from the time it was active. It must have been a hell of a job to met the heavy equipment...
Placed by Hans Leenaarts in Down Under 2008

lakefield NP to Archer River
August 5, 2008 - Archer River, Australia
I liked the camp site at Basis Hole so I made a slow start, enjoyed the early sun shine and left around nine o’clock. The track to the Peninsula Development Road turned out to be a good dirt road. I stopped at Musgrave roadhouse to fill up on fuel, assuming that fuel prices go up when I get further north. The Development Road is an excellent...
Placed by Hans Leenaarts in Down Under 2008