Mount Carbine Caravan Park Sunday 28th June
What a gem of a place we had found here at the caravan park. We were able to wash everything and take time out to read and relax.
I took time out to walk around the park which was once a mining village for all the families and the workers. It was oped by Bjelke- Peterson in 1978 and the now discarded swimming pools, tennis courts, halls and bunk houses have fallen into disrepair over the last 8 years.
I called AAMI and was impressed at how helpful they were and that I didn’t have to speak to any recorded voices or go through numerous menus, pushing phone buttons. With it all sorted out we will go into Cairns to have the rear window replaced either on Monday or Tuesday. Then we head out to the Savannah way via Mareeba.
After all that we went to the pub for a drink.
Going up Cape York and return to Cairns we travelled a total of 2078 kilometres over roads being mostly 90% gravel, sand or red dirt going through Cooktown, Lakeland, Laura, Hann River House, Musgrove Roadhouse, Coen, Archer River Roadhouse, Moreton Telegraph Station, Jardine Ferry, Bamaga and finally the Tip and all again on the return trip.
The result was a great sense of satisfaction that we were able to do it. The cost was a lost number plate, a cracked front windscreen, a destroyed rear window, a lost front headlight protector, the front of the trailer pushed in (when the rock hit and bounced off into the rear window), and of course the stress we put the car and trailer through and the red dust!!!!!!!!
Was it worth it? Yes. However in hindsight we now realise that we should have not have taken the trailer and we should have been driving a much bigger Diesel 4WD complete with snorkel, heavy Cooper tyres, retrieval gear, spare tyres, and containers carrying spare fuel and water. Probably a Nissan Turbo or the like. We could then have spent a few weeks on the trip and gone down many of the side tracks along the way which have great camping spots by rivers, creeks etc. We now know why there are so many caravans and trailers parked where we are staying at the caravan park as they offer free storage whilst people take their tents for the trip up north and then pick them up on their return. Perhaps next time!!!!
What a gem of a place we had found here at the caravan park. We were able to wash everything and take time out to read and relax.
I took time out to walk around the park which was once a mining village for all the families and the workers. It was oped by Bjelke- Peterson in 1978 and the now discarded swimming pools, tennis courts, halls and bunk houses have fallen into disrepair over the last 8 years.
I called AAMI and was impressed at how helpful they were and that I didn’t have to speak to any recorded voices or go through numerous menus, pushing phone buttons. With it all sorted out we will go into Cairns to have the rear window replaced either on Monday or Tuesday. Then we head out to the Savannah way via Mareeba.
After all that we went to the pub for a drink.
Going up Cape York and return to Cairns we travelled a total of 2078 kilometres over roads being mostly 90% gravel, sand or red dirt going through Cooktown, Lakeland, Laura, Hann River House, Musgrove Roadhouse, Coen, Archer River Roadhouse, Moreton Telegraph Station, Jardine Ferry, Bamaga and finally the Tip and all again on the return trip.
The result was a great sense of satisfaction that we were able to do it. The cost was a lost number plate, a cracked front windscreen, a destroyed rear window, a lost front headlight protector, the front of the trailer pushed in (when the rock hit and bounced off into the rear window), and of course the stress we put the car and trailer through and the red dust!!!!!!!!
Was it worth it? Yes. However in hindsight we now realise that we should have not have taken the trailer and we should have been driving a much bigger Diesel 4WD complete with snorkel, heavy Cooper tyres, retrieval gear, spare tyres, and containers carrying spare fuel and water. Probably a Nissan Turbo or the like. We could then have spent a few weeks on the trip and gone down many of the side tracks along the way which have great camping spots by rivers, creeks etc. We now know why there are so many caravans and trailers parked where we are staying at the caravan park as they offer free storage whilst people take their tents for the trip up north and then pick them up on their return. Perhaps next time!!!!
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