Cape York Trip - Sept/Oct 2011

[Dieselcon]

Wow Tasmania sounds like a great idea....


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[Hunty]

Hey Dave
Thanx for an awesome trip! - Jax and I enjoyed the Cape trip immensely.

Dave, you are a trip planning / leading legend, you awesomely planned every detail. I really appreciated all the time and effort you put in to make our trip excellent, heres just a few things that impressed me! about you (Dave).

Extensive Knowledge of all the camping options, good choice of stays.
Excellent route to the Cape - loved all via points.
Great timing - not to slow and not to rushed.
Fantastic knowledge of all food & fuel stops.
Very, very patient leader!
you put up with me! LoL

Thanx heaps mate!
cheers Hunty

[redrubi]

G-Day Guys,

I'm as jelous as hell, sound like you all had a ball.

Tassie sounds like it could be good, if I'm in country I'm in.

Cheers

Andy & Charlene

[Hunty]

Hi Guyz
I just added a 33min video of "My Cape experience" to my build thread and I am now editing a much longer video which I will post up here that includes everyone that went on the trip, I may even save it and premier it at the next SJC meeting, Jax shot most of the video with my Iphone4 - enjoy cheers Hunty

[Wolfe]

Fantastic bring the projector!!

[Steve F]

Got back at 2:00pm today We had a great trip and I'll post up some pics shortly to tease those that left us early. The final four of us all ran down from Emerald yesterday to Narabri and then the final 500 or so KM today. Damn it's cold back home after 43c just a few days ago. Now to wait for the bank account to recover and do the next one. Emily wants to know where we are camping tomorrow

Cheers
Steve

[Steve F]

Some pics

Sunset at Undara (We took a lot of sunset pics)



Part of the lava tubes at Undara



Camping on the shoreline at Weipa



The bar at Bramwell Station, we had a great nigt here



Walking to 'The Tip'



Driving on the beach shown above, we had to make a quick run back to avoid the fast tide



Cheers
Steve

[Dave]

Hey All,

Sonds like everyone made it back safe - and I'm the last to 'report in'! Thanks for all the earlier thanks, but if it wasn't for everyone that went, it wouldn't have worked - so thanks to all for coming along and making it such a great trip!!!

Been scanning thru the photos - some of them aren't bad! Not posting up, there are so many good ones here already! Will bring copies to next meeting for anyone that wants them.

Tassy does sound interesting

Dave

[glend]

Well....where's the Hunno Report? How did the CJ8 go? Assuming it was there at the end as four came back.

Glen

[Steve F]

Well....where's the Hunno Report? How did the CJ8 go? Assuming it was there at the end as four came back.

Glen

No problems at all other than a bit of an oil leak from anything that held oil and the radiator, which we pretty much fixed on the side of the northern bypass track by crimping some tubes and putting some black pepper in the radiator. After that it was easy going and only a few small issues holding us up at all on the way back. Two were mine with the alternator cable coming loose at the battery connection (just outside of Emerald) and loosing a bolt from the left caliper (that was an odd one)

Cheers
Steve