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Submitted: Tuesday, Oct 03, 2006 at 19:37

Rob from Cairns Offroad Training & Tours

Its been a pretty hectic tour season this year and I have enjoyed every minute it of it and met lots of very interesting people. I have just arrived home from a 3 week tour to North WA the Mitchell Plateau Falls and Kalumbaru ($2.05 per lt). I was also able to get permits to travel to Arnem Land, Nhulunbuy and the Gove Peninsular, a very interesting tour.
My touring year started in April when Rosy, the Swiss lady that I have been touring with for the last 3 years, chartered me and my vehicle to drive her around 2\3 of Australia for 60 days.
We left Cairns one week after Cyclone Larry devastated Innisfail and were amazed at the damage done when we drove thru there. We went to Birdsville (Hi Ruth & Ian) via Longreach after flood waters cut off Boulia, Flinders Ranges via the Strezleki Track, Kangaroo Island, Adelaide, Eyre Peninsular, Lincoln NP, across the Nullarbor Plain to Kalgoolie, Perth, back to Albany and the South West corner of WA. We then headed north up the West Coast, Cervantes, Kalbarri, Monkey Mia and saw the dolphins, Exmouth, Coral Bay, Ningaloo reef and swam with a 9.5mt whale shark, an awesome experience, Onslow, Broome for a few days, Derby, Gibb River Road, Dryesdale Station(Hi Anne), Kununurra, Katherine, Cape Crawford, Hells Gate, Lawn Hill, Mount Isa, where I received a call from Billy Tea asking me to come home early as the driver for the first trip to Cape York was AWOL. 21k klms.
Our first Cape trip was in my 100 Series Cruiser and a Troop Carrier, after Billy Tea received special permits to travel thru closed roads from Main Roads in the smaller vehicles. The Cape roads on that first trip were interesting to say the least, severe wash outs, as bad as coming across Northern Australia on the way home and the Gibb River road. Did five Cape York 14 day tours In a Canter 14 seat 4x4 bus after the initial 19 day trip with a 4 day break between each one. The last 3 tours were done by myself as people we had been training didn't work out. Lots of klms, interesting people and places, tuff being a tour guide but sure beats laying bricks like my dad did for 40 years.
Cheers,
Robbie Berrill
www.cairnsoffroad.com.au
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AnswerID: 197711   Submitted: Tuesday, Oct 03, 2006 at 22:10

Steve replied:



ROBBIE ::
Dad laid bricks for a hard living over 40 years , and you got it easy and laid Rosy for 40 days ...IMHO..reckon you got the best end of the deal ..
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FollowupID: 456244   Submitted: Tuesday, Oct 03, 2006 at 22:31

Footloose posted:

My dad laid bricks for over 50 years, and never had a good thing to say about it, except that he was always in steady work.
How times have changed. I wouldn't be able to lay a single brick...or probably anything else these days.
I've simply got to get away again .........:))))))
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AnswerID: 197722   Submitted: Tuesday, Oct 03, 2006 at 22:51

David from David and Justine Olsen's 4WD Tag-Along replied:

It sounds like you had a great time. You must have arrived in Birdsville within a few days of me, actually I recall Ruth saying you were there or you were expected. We sat in the rain in Alice for 2 days, and then had an interesting trip to Chambers Pillar and across the Simpson. Some sections of road were very flooded, but there were bypasses. 1/2 metre of water in the Simpson was interesting to say the least.

Glad to hear you've been busy. We've been run off our feet as well. Now i only I can find a Rosy - 3 years eh, that says a lot for your operation- well done.

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