Cape York in May

G'day Pup
Last year I was up that way for 7 weeks starting in late May. Although we didn't get to the more notorious bits till early-mid June. We were fine, no problems at all really, although Palm Creek was "interesting". Having said that, it all depends - things can change drastically in a matter of minutes in someplaces.

How early you can head up there depends on where and how much rain fell during the wet.

Pup,

In 99 left Sydney on the 23rd April for the Cape. When we arrived in Cairns, early May, the Archer was 7m above the causeway and the Wenlock 4m up.(This was prior to the new crossing)

We were able to take our time a little and let the rivers drop. Archer was 300mm when we crossed it.

While in Weipa on the way North we got heaps of bad info which stopped us seeing many of the things we wanted to. We finally set off to look at the "uncrossable" river and return home disappointed. All in Weipa deemed the barge made of 200l drums too dangerous. The barge was fine and we crossed. We had the area from there north virtually to ourselves and it was great. We reached the tip on the 25th May and returnmed to Sydney by the June long weekend.

Check out the Bureau of Meterology website for Rainfall distribution maps and with a bit of searching you can also find river hights. Also the RACQ have a web page witch gives reasonably good info on road conditions.

Go for it youll never know if you don't try.

Duncs