We got here 🙂

This is as far as "Clifford" could go. The Northern most car park in Australia.

Seisia has the most northern fuel station in Australia. It is not the cheapest though 🙂 Fuel is $2:00 per litre but if you spend $50 at the Siesia store - which we did - you can get 4c a litre off. Saving about 15c per litre over the fuel in Bamaga.

Heading South and across the Jardine Ferry our overnight stop was Bramwell Station. I can't recommend enough that you make this an overnight stop if you are heading to the "tip" $47 per adult for a campsite with showers and toilet, all you can eat meal, and an excellent live show.

It must have been good we bought the usb stick of "The Bagman" to listen to as we leave the Cape.

Dad if you are following this post I don't think you will have heard Bach played quite like this. Geoff Bagman plays Bach

He played this for us.

The other surprise was that we caught up with my nephew and his friends as they were travelling North on the southern bank of the Jardine. They had all driven up the old telegraph track - something we couldn't achieve.

As well as hosting tourists Bramwell is a working cattle station. The most northerly cattle station in Australia. Turns out the current owner is a Rocky Girls Grammar old girl.

The was a mob of weaners in the yards overnight. Along with this old cow.

So thats what the inside of those termite mounds look like.

This poor strainer post, gate post, tree is having a hard time. Not only are the fence wires embedded in the bark so is the gate chain and now the termites have found it.

Our first attempt to find the Batavia gold field failed. We were on the right track but "Clifford" is too tall to fit under a tree branch. I came back later on my push bike.

Flat bed truck

The flat bed truck had dual rear wheels but I couldn't figure out what this diff arrangement was all about. If there are any technically minded people reading this post who know what is going on please let me know.

I am not sure what this piece of machinery is but it could be an early prototype for a power station coal mill. 🙂

Can only assume this is a stationary boiler and associated stationary steam engine. No indication what it was used to drive.

Just as all this machinery is just lying around in the bush waiting to be discovered so is this abandoned mine shaft.

We spent the night at Chuulangun campground. This is on aboriginal land where some people have elected to return to the cape and their homelands and have established a small community .

The campsite is on the banks of the Wenlock river and provided some shots in the morning.

Is there a Bunyip in there?

Wenlock River.

Wenlock River

We were off to Chilli beach. It was a national park campground and we hadn't had phone signal to book a site, but the rangers station was on the way so we would be able to book there.

Wrong, the Telstra tower was down so the ranger station had no internet or  phone. Fortunately a ranger came and suggested we could go into Lockart River and make a phone call from there.

This is a sunrise shot on the beach at Chilli Beach.

The beach is lined with a lot of coconut trees.

There is also an enormous amount of drift rubbish. A sign at the entrance does say how many tons of rubbish has been collected. It seems that it is the way the currents run that a lot of foreign and shipping rubbish end up on this beach.

Some one is keeping track of it every year they have a clean up where it is collected sorted and weighed.

Sunrise through the coconut palms.

Another day a different sunrise at Chilli beach.

So it may be the "Dry" but it does still rain - a rain squall while walking on Chilli beach.