Great adventure today, with some REAL 4WD action on the northern section of the Old Telegraph Track, crossing the Jardine ferry, visiting Bamaga en route to our campsite tonight at Punsand Bay, just 16km along the coast from The Tip.
Highlights from today (Tue-4-Aug):
- successfully completing the Old Telegraph Track with sense of humour intact!
- our beachfront cabent (cross between a cabin and a tent) at Punsand Bay Camping "Resort" - absolute paradise
- beatuful tortillas cooked on the verandah of our cabent
- refreshing swim in the Punsand Bay pool
Lowlights:
- minor car damage suffered at the entrance to the Canibal Creek crossing on the OTT
- lower alloy 'bib' underhanging the front & sides of the bullbar bent & partly dislodged after a particularly nasty nose-dive off a ledge
- sidestep on passenger side slightly bent on underside after hanging up on the tricky exit to the same crossing
- the radio antenna also got bent back somewhere along the track, but Techo reckons it looks better leaning backward anyway
- more and more terrible corrugations north of the Jardine
- listening to whinging Grey Nomad women waiting for the Jardine ferry (but we didn't let them interrupt our inner peace & relaxation)
Tomorrow morning we will take a leasurely drive and walk to the northernmost point of the Australian mainland, then do a bit of exploring around the northern region before retiring again to our Punsand Bay cabent.
Tosh & Techo, gazing out over the calm horizon of the Torres Strait
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