Cape York 28June-28July2004?

Hi Tom

Not looking good at the mo. Do you have the luxury of postponing for a while if necessary. I was talking to a mate this afternoon who has spent years up in that neck of the woods.

We were planning on July/August but may have to rethink departure dates.

All depends on this "late" wet and of course depends on where you were intending to travel.

Just a thought ... unless you like mud.

Cheers

Hi Tom, i'm also planning to go around those dates also, hopefully things will have dried out a little.
I'll be up in Cairns from the 27th of June.
Where r u starting from?

I will also be doing a trip to the Cape leaving Cairns 16 June with a group of 6 vehicles. Have heard it may be damper than average. May catch you on the road - also in a LC105 4.2.

David

Hi Tom,

We are in the final stages of planning our trip and our dates are fairly close, so we might be interested.

Whereabouts are you travelling from & more importantly, when will you be leaving Cairns?

Be warned we are travelling with three kids under the age of eleven!!

Cheers for now....

Mark -->

The above reply is for you as well but I can only go from the 26th of June from Melbourne as that is when the school holidays start.

Eric from Cape York Connections and Seto - Seto I see you are in a convoy of 6 and I'm assuming that Eric also has larger groups as well - I will be leaving Canberra with 7 vehicles (me plus 6) 3xGU Patrols, 2xdiscos, 1xPrado, and 1xRodeo (all diesels). We will have 3 with offroad trailers and the rest will be tenting it. One of my concerns is the size of bush campsites along the way - are we likely to strike much trouble if we travel early and stop early - setting up camp at say 1500 or thereabouts? We depart Canberra 25 July with the intention of travelling via Bourke, Longreach, Hughenden, The Lynd, Chillagoe (cross country from the Lava Tubes), Wrotham Park, Coen, The Tip (up and back on the OTL- the corrugations of the bypass roads in 2001 got the better of me and I've decided to take the slow but scienic route both ways), Weipa (via Batavia Downs), Cooktown (via Lakefield) and then to Mossman (via Trib or the CREB). What's your view on the camping dilemma?
Cheers
Pete

Tom,

Have done a bit more planning and we intend to leave Cairns on Thursday 1 July, after travelling through from Darwin.

If there is some way you could get me you email address I could send you our itinerary and see if we can work something out.

Cheers