Well where do I start as we all know expect the unexpected

Thats a BUST,
hope you better dude.
Wayne-o

As they say in the trade....BUGGER !!!
Just hope all is good up there in 20 days time !!!!!!!

Eric

I'm surprised this happened when I was'nt there. As the un-crowned king of wet weather, tropical bites and sickness it's obvious your trying to usurp my position! LOL

Get well soon

Regards

Kim

Hi Eric,
I know how you feel...
I have a chest infection which flaredup during my Cape York trip..
We also found every place in the cape which had high humidity to offer and a lot of rain..
The roads going into Chilli Beach looked pretty ordinary going in and then coming out was straight after 50mm of rain....
Somehow we found ourselves in the staion country around Palmerville and WOW that clay is slippery...
And then to top it right off we came out on the Dunbar road and turned right and got met by ankle deep black clay as far as the eye could see..
We couldnt make a turn in the right direction if our lives depended on it..
Lakefield was stinking humid at night....
Kalpower was a Taipan haven,,, they were everywhere chasing green tree frogs...
They slithered through our camp virtually straight under our legs..
Wettest Cape York trip i have ever seen in the dry...And the most humid...

Sorry about all the spelling mistakes but my time ran out at the internet cafe.

Anyhow my 18 day trip turns into 5 day trip I try and get peter to fly in from WA but he is caught at home valley station with all roads around him under water I ring 2 other people to try and pay for them to fly up and drive the rest of the trip for me but they are battling rising flood water else were in Australia.

I have to cancel my trip so my group has to carry on on there own they have finished the otl and with no dramas.

As far as I know there is still no access to chilli beach and the top end of lake field national park and I am no sure if the 2 tankers have been pulled out of the bog near coen.

The main development road was good considering the rain we have had.

All the best
Eric

Eric,
I hope that you aren't doing a gulf trip across to Cooktown in Sept as we are and it will be guaranteed to break the drought when we go for a drive.
Regards
Tour Boy

Hi Eric,
Hope you get better soon.
I reckon we'll put our planned trip to the cape off till el nino returns and dries up the country again....

Get yourself home to the burgh mate the dams in Sydney are only at 50%......LOL

Are you sure you did not wipe your foot with one of Pete's pair of underpants. From what I recall Kat says he wears one pair for four days. Normal first day, second day back to front, third day normal but inside out, forth day inside out and back to front.

Well I'm still going up to Bamaga Wednesday, camping somewhere around Archer River overnight. Hope it's a lot drier by then.
Still drizzling in Cairns, but the radar shows clear at the top.

Hi Eric
Sorry to hear about your health hiccup. We were camped at Weipa for two of the nights you were in hospital. We were lucky to miss a lot of the bad weather - we did Weipa on the return trip as Chili Beach was closed by then. We stayed at Punsand Bay this time around. The weather was very very humid, lot of drizzle during the three days we had there and a doozy of a rain storm one evening at 6pm - in the middle of my helicopter flight over the tip! Came back to camp to find everything wet, as the men of the camp had been on the beach watching us women go up in the chopper. Took them a while to twig when the rain hit that the camp might need checking fast! Wet beds that night to add to the humidity.
We did the OTL on the way north with no problems other than having a couple of tries at Palm Creek, due to the mud. Two nights at Bramwell, with a lot of showers while there.
No major vehicle problems in our group of four vehicles. Only one spot gave us any bother and that was the track from Punsand to the tip (Roma Flats) - two needed recovery - one snatched out and one needed winching. An interesting morning.
Going south we had planned to go into Chili Beach and Lakefield but road closed at the top, so we headed down to Hann River for a night and then on to Cooktown a day early.
The road near the Captain Billy turnoff was undergoing roadworks and was very very slippery the day we came out and we could see coming south the difference the rain had made in a short time in comparison to how we found it going north a couple of weeks earlier. We left Brisbane 9th June and got back again 1st July. We took the inland route through Atherton, Emerald, Roma on the way back. Fine weather all the way from Cooktown to home, but cold nights!
Cheers
Cheryl