Today was our worst day yet...
Yesterday we achieved our goal of getting to The Tip, we celebrated and spent a relaxing afternoon at the remote, peaceful camp at Punsand Bay, then went to sleep happy.
Today we woke with a sense of loss and, with a touch of sadness, we packed the car and set off southward for home. It was an extraordinarily rough trip over hundreds of km of corrugated gravel & sand 'roads'. We arrived in Coen late this afternoon mentally exhausted from the jolting corrugations.
Highlights from today (Thu-6-Aug):
- Finding the WWII aircraft wreckage sites near Jackey Jackey airfield at Bamaga
- well-earned rest and hamburger at our Bramwell Junction lunchstop
- another beautiful campsite by the babbling brook at Coen
Lowlights:
- aforementioned empty feeling
- relentless, mind & bum-numbing corrugations all along the Bypass Rd & Telegraph Rd
- getting yanked off the road into a culvert at 80km/h (car & load survived, but a scary moment)
Tomorrow we'll head toward Cooktown where we'll probably spend the night.
Tosh & Techo.
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