travelling to cape york.

Take some gumboots and a shovel !!!! he heh

good luck
John

Ben ,we just returned 3 wks ago ,there is good fishing at Weipa and Seisa , But take some heavy line we made the mistake of taking light gear ( Price of a plastic hand line will set you back 22+ bucks at Bamaga )
The road to From Morton station to Weipa is good 80-100Kph ,the short cut from Weipa across ( heading east )is a rough one but saves you time The bypass roads are a shocker If I had to go again I would do the telegragh track both ways.
The road from bamaga to punsand bay is reasonable.
However I still had to replace all My shocks once home ( all were under 12month old )
Enjoy your trip Rgds Craig

Just got back last night - as mentioned earlier by another response stick to the OTL - the bypasses are crap all corragated. We were getting a lot of Salmon at Punsand Bay. The graders were working a lot when we were there - north of Archer River and also just north of the Jardine. The OTL was slow but more enjoyable than the corragated bypasses - creek crossing had the option of the easy and hard ways. Deepest crossing we found was Nowllands Brook just north of Twin Falls which was waist deep with firm sand bottom. Should be still a few people running around - we saw plenty, Cheers Beddo
If you go to Chilli Bch (Iron Range NP) - do not do it if the wind is blowing a gale (nice spot though) - the Frenchmans track we found to be similiar to the OTL - it was very interesting- it only had one crossing that was a bit of a challenge which was the Pascoe River - some rocks and depth varys to waist deep. Cheers Beddo