Cape York

According to this site, many of the roads are cloded at the moment. Check under On The Road above or this link: http://www.exploroz.com/Roads/QLD.asp#FNQ

No worries, ill check it out. I have seen RACQ and others and found that our biggest threat is the Archer river, is there a way around it?
Thanks

Hmmm

With a major cyclone recently( Larry in FNQ) and very high average rainfall generally, road travel anywhere within the cape area for about the next four weeks will be very difficult if not impossible/prohibited (road closures). See Message 32495 for rainfall patterns.

Travel between Townsville and Cairns will probably be a little slow due to cyclone effects as well. ( Bruce Highway.....the State Government calls it a highway I dont).

If it rains heavily or we get another late cyclone well............!!!!!!!

Check with your motoring organisation web sites for road closures (RACQ in Queensland) . Go to the Qld Police Web site, get Police Station Phone numbers from there and ring the Police Stations in the area's you wish to travel seeking road conditions.

I would suggest a less rain affected fishing location at this time. I am of the opionion that it is a little early for Cape York.

Regards

Paul

Thanks,
We are suppost to leave Cairns Sunday, i will wait a bit and see if the rivers drop, other then that we may have to go with plan B, head to NT.
Thanks for the help.

When you get up to Weipa drop into the Weipa auto electrics and have a chat to Sam.. He is a nice guy with a heap of local knowledge and is only too happy to share...

He will send you in the right direction to find a few fish too!

Tell him Sea Dog sent you!

Cheers

Suggest you try to get first hand info from either Crazydog or Rob from Cairns Offroad. These fellows would have a real good idea of what is happening. Having lived and worked in the region back a few years I would think you are too early. Take the advice and stay out of the Cape. Also check if you are thinking of heading further west. The Normanton Burketown area are experiencing their biggest wet sine 1968 with the highest flood levels for 100 years. This is not the city where it stops raining and the floods are gone. Personally I would be waiting until it was sensible to travel as the people up there have more to think about than retrieving the lost or repairing the roads further damaged in the name of Barra chasing.
You could go to Karumba via Julia Creek and Normanton since that is mostly blacktop.

Kevin J

There is another thing to consider - You might get up there if the rivers drop a bit but then it might rain more while you are there.

Then you can't get back......sounds like a plan !!!

You might get through in the next few days But Ithink the archer is up I was there on the weekend and it was 1.4metres going down but I think you might be a week early to sneek up you can cross easily "IF YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING" at 900-1000. But this is a good time of year to go up this way but you will probably get stuck somewhere unless you're well prepared. The short answer is you need to be very experienced 4x4'ers to come up at this time of year. hope this helps cheers drop in for a beer on you're way through.