I am not sure if this is the sixth or seventh week of our travels but we finally got to the very tip.
We are back in Weipa after 5 days at the tip of the cape, so I will try to fill in the last week as best I can.
While southern Queensland shivers in a cold snap we are cooking in the usual hot & steamy winter weather of the North, day temperatures are the low thirties with humidity you could cut with a knife, while the nights don't get below 23.
We have covered a lot of ground over the past week & at least another 800klm of corrigated, dusty & washed out roads. Some of the recently graded areas were quite good.
This will be the largest post I have ever done as there is so much to cover, including the mine tour we took in Weipa the afternoon before we left for the tip. We left our van in Weipa & stayed in a donga at Umagico, 40Klm south of the tip while Sue & Mark towed their van up to Umagico.
The pics are kind of mixed up & not in chronological order as they came from different cameras.
The 4 of us on the most Northern tip of Australia. (drone pic)
The Weipa salt water croc trap.
The markers for shipping for the narrow channel extending 12 nautical miles out to sea.
The sand spit were a bloke was eaten by a croc last year.
Thats as deep as the mine pit gets. Only a foot of overburden & then 18 inches or so of pure bauxite. So it is really just a loading job with end loaders.
One of the numerous wartime plane wrecks around the Bamaga airport, which was a wartime air base for attacks on nearby New Guinea.
There are many thousands of these drums scattered through the jungle near the airfield. They were used to refuel the bombers & fighters attacking the Japanese in New Guinea.
That's our car on the Jardine river ferry.
There are heaps of brumbies everywhere, including all over the town.
Video creek crossing.
Video jungle.
Walking out to the tip.
Nearly there.
On the very tip of Australia.
Looking back at the tip & the island immediately beyond.
Morning tea under the coconut palms near the tip.
The federally funded indigenous resort abandoned to the jungle.
At this point we are less than 190k from New Guinea, but we got closer when we went to Thursday island.
That's my drone at work.
Video near the tip
That's us.
Video of us coming back from the tip.
Yvonne & I playing Jenga.
On the boat heading for Thursday island.
Video, on the boat to T.I.
Horn island.
Green Hill Fort on Thursday island.
Video, Green Hill Fort.
T.I.
Entry to underground tunnels at Green Hill Fort.
Pearl divers memorial.
Designer of the Torres Strait flag.
The Quetta memorial church.
The most Northerly Australian pub.
Video, boats.
Fruit Bat falls.
Video, Fruit Bat Falls.
On the boat to Thursday island.
Jardine river.
View into the Torres Strait from the kitchen of our donga at Umagico.
T.I.
In the tunnels under Green Hill Fort.
Waiting for fish & chips at Seisia.
We counted 23 of these wrecked & abandoned cars between Laura & the tip.
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