I posted this under my visitor name before I joined:
"We have been planning a trip to
Cape York for some months. Have booked accommodation in
Cairns for 29th and 30th May. We had been hoping to have company from our club - Central Coast 4WD Club (NSW) but no luck so we are on our own. Now I have found that as of 3rd May most of the roads up there are closed.
We will still go to
Cairns, I am driving from
Sydney and Barb is flying from
Darwin to meet me there. Don't have an alternative plan so we are hoping that the roads may be open by then. If not we will have to find somewhere else interesting to go for 3 weeks.
Questions to this
forum:
1. Is it likely that the roads will be open by beginning of June?
2. Anyone like to join us either on the trip to
Cape York or the as yet undetermined alternative?
3. Anyone got any suggestions for that alternative if the roads are still closed.
We are driving an '05 Nissan Patrol GUIV TD42TDi with 2" lift and 32" Wrangler MTR tyres. We don't tow a trailer - sleep in a tent."
I was wrong about accom in
Cairns, it is booked for 28th and 29th so we are hoping to head further north on 30th.
Leaving here (Lake Macquarie NSW) Tuesday morning. Meeting Barb in
Cairns on Saturday. Hoping roads will be open.
I took up life
membership in ExplorOz last Sunday (16th) and at the same time ordered from their online
shop this:
http://www.exploroz.com/Shop/Packs/Misc ... _York.aspx
which is a copy of the Hema
Cape York map is a road map at a scale of 1: 1,000,000 designed for planning a trip anywhere throughout the
Cape York Peninsula region, and Ron and Viv Moon’s definitive guide to
Cape York, now released in its 12th edition.
Cape York – an Adventurer’s Guide, is 224 pages of vital information, which has been gleaned from over 32 trips to the Cape.
I selected express delivery and the
shop said 3 days.
I expected to receive it on 19th or 20th (Thursday) and when it didn't come by Friday I checked progress on the online
shop and it came up with "being packed". I emailed the
shop manager on Friday afternoon to askif it could be delivered to
Cairns instead, or to cancel the order. I got no reply and the order status remains "being packed". I am worried that it may just get to
my home sometime after I leave, thus useless for this years trip.
Hoping to meet up with any ExplorOz members in the area at the same time and travel some or all of the trip in in company.