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Exploring South Cape Bedford Beach, near Elim Beach.
Stunning southeast Cape – part one
OMETIMES Daintree. skippered by an equal- people just don’t Both routes feature ly weathered looking have enough time steep hills, however the tin miner.
Cape York
by ‘BILLABONG’ BAZZ LYON
to do the full ‘tip trip’ – CREB route is epic and “Have you got wheel
that’s just a reality. Others have done so but want to return to Cape York to further explore this amazing
Development Rd.
This amazing swathe
All with an abun- dance of camping, fish- ing and photographic opportunities!
should only be tack- led in fine weather in a well-equipped four- wheel-drive.
chains?” he asked. “Because if it rains and you haven’t, you’re
region.
There’s an abundance
It ranges from rain- forest-clad mountain ranges to remote, sce- nic coastlines (and is- lands) and vast tropical savannah plains inter- laced with rivers and billabongs.
any case the rain that time held off.
of smaller areas to vis- it, and one of the best is the southeastern cor- ner, from roughly the Bloomfield River north to Bathurst Bay, and west to the Peninsula
Anyway, back to our journey!
of country offers a proper mouthful, not just a taste of the Cape!
To reach the Bloom- field River from the south, you can either travel via the famous Bloomfield Track, which starts at Cape Tribulation, or for the more adventurous, the CREB Track via
I first drove the CREB back in the seventies in a short wheelbase Land Rover, just as the first storms of the ‘build- up’ were cranking up.
stuffed!”
I actually did, but in
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The Cooktown coastline is truly spectacular and offers superb shing. Here looking south over the mouth of the Annan River
Looking south from the lighthouse at Archer Point. from Mount Cook.
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Partway along we met a battered old Landy of the ‘held together with fencing wire’ variety,
A diversion at the Aboriginal community of Wujal Wujal to see the spectacular Bloom-