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
www.aussieat.com
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