Archer River to Weipa 11-9-12

The corrugations on the Weipa road were awful and there was a lot of roadwork, we made good time but arrived worn out.  On the way we had a few drops of rain, not enough to wet the windscreen.

Tony and Jen spy a huge snake, since we were the lead car today, it would have meant going back over the corrugations again.  We decide to look at Tony’s photo instead.

We were able to book the cars in for Oil and grease, find a place that sold Coopers and organised to have it put on the car a good start.  We now have 2 Coopers Super maxx on the back.  They are noisier than the Goodrich’s but as long as they don’t puncture, we will settle with that.  They are supposed to be very good.  The Goodrich's are really badly chopped about by the roads.  We have been told by owners of camps, farms, shire workers that these roads don’t like Coopers, Sigh.  More cars than not have Coopers on them.

We had trouble finding a place to stay, everything is booked out.  Mine workers and detention centre workers, not to mention the tourists.  One of the newest motels is booked out for three years to detention centre personnel.  Finally we find a place to stay – with Crazy Pete.  We are sharing a prefab thing, one bedroom each end, bathroom and kitchen in the centre.  Pete however is very helpful and pleasant.

We four on the Chillagoe Limestone caves track