Got off to a good start 7:30 AM. Found our way off the station OK. We had followed our instructions to the best of our abilities to find our way in and got totally lost. When we worked our way out (probably on the road we should have used, we decided that there was no way that we could have found our way based on the instructions we had.
We travelled up a smallish track that lead us through quite a few station gates and then through a station itself, that was a little daunting but quite correct. The track was not as bad as the Hema map suggested, but the opening and closing of the gates ate up the time and it took us 4 1/2 hours to do 200 (km). Those involved in rally cars would have loved the curving course.
We saw, brolgas, kangaroos, echidna, black cockatoos and a flock of green parrots.
Finally got onto the Weipa road and it’s surface was worse than the track had been, very deep corrugations, it was hard if not possible to find the ‘sweet spot’ at all. Stopped at Coen for coffee and fuel. We had been going to stay there, but changed our minds when we saw the camping ground, on to find a bush camp. This soon became not a proposition, sides of roads fenced or had large trespass signs. Tony said it used to be friendly, not so now. On to Archer River Roadhouse. Then……we had another flat tyre, bummer. This was a tyre that had been repaired in Mt Evelyn just before we left, it didn’t hold. We now need another new tyre. Michael is very sad, 3 punctures in 3 weeks. Hehe only another 7 to go. We have lowered the tyre pressure too!..Although the locals and the tyre people tell us to pump them up!!
Got to Archer River OK after our pit stop team changed the tyre. Tea and bed, it was a very windy night.
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