Fruit and Veg to Cape York is it traveling up or back .

There's a fruit fly/customs station just north of Coen. It is meant to stop fruit (mango fruit fly???, but would assume they would take all fruit off you) from coming from the north to the infect the fruit growers further south. I went through last year but it was closed (on a Friday afternoon-just checked my diary).

From the Cape York - An Adventurer's Guide, page 52:

.....A vehicle inspection station at Coen checks vehicles heading south......

They also mention the following link:

- http://www.daff.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0014/120821/CapeYork.pdf

Hope that helps.

Andrew

we were checked at Coen last week and they let us through with some onions and sweet potato on board.

Not sure what they were looking for as our fruit was in tins.

Regards

Last trip we took through SA and VIC and Mildura it was relatively easy to find lists of what was NOT allowed. Good documentation also explained why and it was an interesting job to organise meals and storage to comply.

I just scanned all the previous references in this thread and could NOT find a list of what is NOT allowed. Good info on deseases and bugs, but not being botanists that does not necessarily show me if tomatoes or apples are permitted. What about oranges, lemons or limes?

Can anyone point out a list please?

Phil