Camping at Cockatoo Creek on Old Telegraph Track

Hi Al-one,
Coming from Fruit Bat Falls back to the main diversion road, where the two meet, on the left is a track leading into a large clearing which we have used as an overnight stop. No water, plenty of firewood, out of sight of the main road.
Good Luck
Pedro

Al.one : if cookatoo ck is like the rest of the TT its most likely not worth the trouble, hard enough with camper & the TT is busy with cars moving a lot quicker than towing , not that much room to get off the track .. looking at the map you need to drive some of the TT:( ???

Unfortunately there are very few official camps for caravaners but maybe an unused road work camp site would be your best idea .

Jardine river is a good camp site .....
We went in to Elliot falls via mistake creek track you could get a small van in there with just a short bit of the TT before a camp at the creek .

Good travels....

Thanks for both of the responses. Pedro your suggestion seems to be suitable. I had a look on Google Earth and I think I can see your site.
Cheers,
Al-one

Thanks for the hint Christine and Lindsay. Looking at google Earth there appears to be a couple of large clearings just off the road approximately 4 and 8 kays north of the Fruit Bat Falls turnoff. Can anyone offer any comments on these if the one mentioned by Pedro is full?
Cheers,
Al-one

We have just returned from there. It would be difficult to head south down the OTT towing a van past Sailors Creek. Yes there are a few spots in the area you could over night. To get to Elliot/Twin Falls Scruby creek was about bonnet height of most vehicles. There is plenty of room to park with van at Fruitbat falls to day trip.

I would not be wanting to drag a caravan to Cockatoo. Its not a very wide track and will be busy as with all the OTT traffic from early to late in the day. It'd be a real bugger to try and get by all the other traffic as you try and get out to the PDR again. Worst case, I would rather park on the side of the PDR, which can be very wide in places, if I couldn't find a suitable side track to hide up.

Here's my variation on the theme from last week.
1. Definitely no camping at Fruitbat or $120 fine - straight from ranger. His advice was to camp just metres south of Scrubby and watch the bonnet high action and so we did - they all made it. LOL
2. A - ahem - bypass exists on E side of Scubby so you only hit 30 cm deep water.
3. Eliot Falls camp is adjacent to Twin and needs the online booking which is a pain in FNQ as only Telstra is Coen then Bamaga. So camp for free at Canal just 500m away.
4. Camp on the hill 100 m N of Sailor, unhitch and drive OTL down to Cockatoo then Gunshot and watch more action as young turks try their rigs out.
5. Cannibal is about 1 metre deep on the left side as you enter creek going north.
6. I seem to have the only petrol 4WD at the Tip. LOL
7. Compared to 8 years ago the OTL crossings are trashed - too many 33 inch tyres ripping it up IMO...... W