Cape York - Eliot, Twin and Fruitbat Falls

We left Bramwell Station and then refuelled at Bramwell Junction which is the start of the Old Telegraph Track.

One regular casualty is a vehicle's numberplates and the Junction Roadhouse has a selection of them nailed to a tree.

We then headed off up the Tele to see how far we would get. The answer is not very far! The first creek crossing is Palm Creek and while the water is not deep the approach and exit tracks are wet, muddy, slippery, steep and generally damned difficult.

Check out the pics below and note that only one vehicle made it through without needing to be winched - that was a Patrol with a big lift, double locked and wearing Centipedes - all very serious gear indeed,

This particular dickhead attacked the exit repeatedly and ended up breaking his steering.

So, we continued up the bypass road and then turned in to the Eliot Falls camp ground. The track in was rough and this crossing was one of them on the way in.

We got to the Eliot Falls campground and found that the QLD Nat Parks people had stuffed up our booking (no big surprise) and ut all four of us on a site that was barely big enough for two tents. I called them on the satphone and spent $25 in call fees while they stuffed around (and ultimately stuffed up again) re-organising things.

Still, the falls were spectacular:

Twin Falls - these are probably the most well known of the falls and they provide a brilliant swimming hole with the clear green water and the falls themselves.

Take a look and enjoy!

This was the fall that takes the water out of the swimming hole.

Just to give you some perspective, this is Karen heading in for a swim.

I enjoyed the massage effect from the falls themselves!

I wonder if Hugh Jackman is worried about his "Sexiest Australian Man" title now?  Hmmmm?

Eliot Falls were a short walk away and we were very impressed with them.

This is the view upstream and while most of the water is just six inches deep over the rock you can see where the deeper holes are to be found - and we found them!

Yep - these are the deeper holes in the river bed and they were ust so refresshing to swim in.

Fruit Bat Falls were a bit of a drive away and look to provide an even better swimming hole, but we didn't bring our togs so no swim that day.

Pretty though eh?

One of the days we went to drive further p the Tele Track and we came across some of the creek crossings. The first one was Sam Creek and we both took a drive through the water there.

Having seen Greg fall into a bit of a hole I stayed closer to the right hand bank and walked through the crossing easily.

Cannibal Creek was the next one and driving across the rock was simple as.

Sadly, after that the "girls" decided that we had done enough scary river crossings and insisted we went back to camp and the waiting beer and wine (and vodka) for the evening.