The TRIP BUG is starting to bite !!!

Thanks draff

Any other recommendations gratefully accepted....!!!

Also a fan of Verilya Point.



Had a great few days there and also enjoyed the fishing

Kind regards

Cape York June-July... Ya still want it to be a little bit wet in the creeks..

Last year I'd reckon you would have had a lot more than a "little", the wet seemed to go on till June. I suppose it would depend on where and which creeks.

Kind regards

I would have been dissapointed if it was any less wet when we went in June last year...

Ah- not all 'forumites' are necessarily ExplorOz members !!
Don't really want to be discriminatory about this.

I must admit,
I am on my fourth trip this year and have not posted any of em :-(

Toytruck

Sorry,
I should also add, most of my 2 to 3 day trips I do not plan. My wife and I have always had a habit of waking up at 4 or 5 in the morning and thinking.....lets go for a drive so up we get gear and kids in the car and away we go. Sometimes we will cover a couple of thousand K's in a standard weekend, and thats with three kids.

I'll have to try actually planning a trip one day :-)

Toytruck

The best way to do the small trips. In the early eighties we wanted to head north of WA, (we had six weeks up our sleeve) All we had planned was to head straight up North to the furtherest point that we had been before, then we went to each spot ,checked it out and moved on. We had four young kids (9yrs to 5yrs) towed the caravan (dirt roads and all) and finished up in Darwin. The only area that we didn't cover was the GRR (which hopefully if all goes well this year we may be doing in July/August. That trip was one of our great trips and the kids still remember parts of it, even the then 5yo.

Cheers

D&B

Hi Pete
Had the same response from probably the same servo. March last year..
Went into the Falls after 3 days of heavy rain- and it was spectacular..
Didn't risk the Ring River Track though...maybe next time !!!!

Hi Signman,

We were there after a day and a half of serious rains and it was fantastic. We skipped the Ring River Track as well. From what I have read once you start you were committed and I wasn't keen on the river crossing after the rain. The worst part about the drive in was wondering where I was going to pass someone if they were going the other way.

Did you drive the Spray Tunnel near Zeehan?

Pete

Spray Tunnel is a 'standing joke' between me & SWMBO (the navigator)...
When we got to the tunnel, had to get out & remove our rather tall HF antenna..
Went thru the tunnel- had a look around the working- put the HF antenna back on, and proceeded back toward Zeehan.
Somehow turned L instead of R...and ended up at the tunnel AGAIN..
Out of car- remove HF antenna- drive thru tunnel- refit antenna...
And SHE reckoned it was MY fault....!!!!!!!

And does everyone do the same thing:

Drive through tunnel
Stop
Co-Pilot hops out with camera
Back up
Co_pilot takes photo of 4by 'emerging' from tunnel.

We did that and 2 others also did while we were wandering around the mine looking for a geocache (muggled)

The other thing about Spray Tunnel we wondered is why it is not signposted on the main road or mentioned in the trip guides - we only found out about because of David and Michelle wrote it up in their Tassie Trip report.

!MPG:12!

Pete