Am I missing something? Yesterday you said you were going up the Bloomfield Track today???
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Living the life Damo. . Awesome..
Enjoy the travels
Sorry Cuppa, I should have mentioned this was September. We're in Perth now lol. Trying to catch up on months of travels.
Today (28th Sept 16) we took on the Bloomfield Track. I was expecting a bit of 4x4ing but unfortunately wasn't too be. The hardest part of the Bloomfield Track is the very steep hill that they were concreting on our way through. Very nice drive through the rainforest though. Looking back I do wish we done the creb track, we were warned off it with the trailer but since learnt we would have been ok.
Start of The Bloomfield Track
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One of many creek crossing of the Bloomfield Track
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After the Bloomfield Track we come out back onto bitumen at Wujal Wujal and had a quick look at Bloomfield Falls
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Continuing on over the bitumen roads we arrived at The Lions Den Hotel for lunch and refreshments. Old mate playing the ribs was quite a spectacle.
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Continuing north we quickly came to Black Mountain, a very strange looking mountain of black boulders that almost looks man made.
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We then continued on to Cooktown for the night at a caravan park after checking out the lookout and museum.
Cooktown
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Being that we were in a massive rush when we originally planned and left home, we really didn't plan where we were going after Cooktown. So over a couple of beverages after the kids went to bed we plotted a rough plan for our further travels. If nothing else I could always fall back on "Sounded like a good idea at the time when I was drunk" :)
Planning
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So we planned on going west from Cooktown along Battle Camp Rd through Old Laura to Kalpower for the night, then onto Cape Melville. We did consider doing the Starcke Track along coast to Melville but we were to later learn that was a bad idea. (Met some German backpackers who did the 108km in 8hrs lol)
Battle Camp Rd
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Old Laura Homestead
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Old relics
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Modern Toyota
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Kalpower Campground
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Kalpower Crossing
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We went down to the crossing at night with a spotlight and found our first croc looking at us on the other side. We let him be and went back to camp without a swim lol