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    Quote Originally Posted by Rip'n'Shred View Post
    Wow Cuppa that's beautiful! Unfortunately we are a long way from there now and doing a lap, but will remember that one for next time. Thanks for sharing the spot!
    Am I missing something? Yesterday you said you were going up the Bloomfield Track today???

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    Living the life Damo. . Awesome..
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cuppa View Post
    Am I missing something? Yesterday you said you were going up the Bloomfield Track today???


    cuppa he was in shark bay a couple of days ago, he is late with his thread posting
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    Quote Originally Posted by Stropp View Post
    cuppa he was in shark bay a couple of days ago, he is late with his thread posting
    Thanks Clunk, was kinda guessing it was something like that. S'pose I've missed some other posts elsewhere?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cuppa View Post
    Thanks Clunk, was kinda guessing it was something like that. S'pose I've missed some other posts elsewhere?
    Your getting mixed up mate - thats stropp not clunk. LOL
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    Quote Originally Posted by 4bye4 View Post
    Your getting mixed up mate - thats stropp not clunk. LOL
    Strewth I'm going well on this eh. Sorry Stropp, think I need an early night!

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    Sorry Cuppa, I should have mentioned this was September. We're in Perth now lol. Trying to catch up on months of travels.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cuppa View Post
    Strewth I'm going well on this eh. Sorry Stropp, think I need an early night!
    Time to get back to the water based paints I think.
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    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


    One of many creek crossing of the Bloomfield Track




    And another


    After the Bloomfield Track we come out back onto bitumen at Wujal Wujal and had a quick look at Bloomfield Falls




    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.








    Continuing north we quickly came to Black Mountain, a very strange looking mountain of black boulders that almost looks man made.



    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"

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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)

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    Old Laura Homestead



    Old relics



    Modern Toyota



    Kalpower Campground


    Kalpower Crossing




    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
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