Cape York - Heading South

Leaving Bamaga and taking the ferry across the Jardine again, we headed south. Our initial plan was to get onto the Tele Track and camp near Gunshot Creek to see if anyone was brave enough to try the old crossing.

This was the track into the Tele Track.

Right where the access track and the main drag meet though was a marker telling us that this was the place where an early explorer made camp and it was the last place they were known to be before they all disappeared.

It didn't have much of a pretty outlook did it?

When we reached the Tele we headed down to Gunshot but we found a number of people heading north and on a narrow track someone has to give way. This pic shows what happens when you lace your wheels too close to the edge of a washout - yeah, I dropped the wheels into a ditch and couldn't drive out. I needed to be snatched out by Greg in his Toyota.

Embarrassing.

This is a view of Gunshot and, as you can see, the creek is shallow and the chicken track is easy. No challenge at all. Where the red shirted person is though is the old access track and that looks very difficult indeed.

Bramwell junction - we were to stay at the Bramwell Station campground again, but before we got there we had a photoshoot thing again.

These termite mounds are opposite the junction roadhouse and I thought that I'd post these for the non-Australians to show them what a termite mound looks like.

The start of the Old Telegraph Track!  :)

This is a view of the Bramwell Station bar/restaurant. It is MUCH better than it looks at first.