Left
Cairns on Monday heading for Noah beach. Decided to stay at
Cape Tribulation on stead. Very nice spot to
camp. Noah Beach was very busy and you need to pre book to stay as it is pretty much booked out. A nice drive along the coast. Could spend a long time exploring this part of the coast. We took the Bloomfield road not the
creb track.
Tuesday was Cape trib to Elim. Was a good drive. Road in ok condition. Some really steep spots but these are concreted so good grip.
River crossing are not deep, axle height. Was surprised with all the rain around not much up here though. Our drive up was planned to be easy as we have had a small amount of car trouble. The road out to Elim Beach was rough but ok, some deep pot holes. Caught us by surprise a couple of times. Some soft sand as
well in spot. We could not find
free camping at Elim as there are dongas everywhere now. Eddies
camp is $10 per person over 12yrs old, very basic camping,
toilets and shower if you light the fire. Interesting guy to talk to. Was making spears for the museum and if we were there for a while would've made us one and taken us crabbing. We planned to stay at Elim 2 nights BUT,
After setting up
camp I headed off to
Cape Bedford looking for a spot to fish as you do. Found some really soft sand so went to let tires down. Noticed front passenger side was missing dust cap and circlip off axle. Will just mention at this point we had swivel hub seals done in
Cairns and they checked front bearing as
well????. At this point I pretty much lost it. Went back to
camp and found a bottle to work as dust cap. Packed trailer up in the morning and headed back to
Cooktown, the road is in the same condition going the other way as when we came in lol.. Mechanic said parts will be in first thing in the morning. You might be thinking at this point what am I going to do. I did what anyone in this situation should do. I got my rods and headed down
the wharf which brings me to the fish count. 2 trevally, 1 flathead and 1 queenie. This may improve tomorrow as I'm fishing tomorrow morning while car is repaired. Mackerel have been in last few morning so here's hoping. Will leave tomorrow and head up to
Laura then
coen, bramwell, edith falls and
Seisia. HOPEFULLY. Will post when we get to
seisia unless tomorrow is really good fishing lol. Have a good day all.
One last thing, the big 4 at
cooktown is really nice. Very very clean amenities and nice grounds. $40 a night with big 4 member discount for 2 adults and 2 children and they let us have a late
check out with the car/fishing.
Josh