Just chilln again

Posted Friday 11th January 2013

Today's been a pretty lazy day.  Yesterday we packed up from the mouth of the Annan River and went into Cooktown. It was sooooo hot! someone said it had gotten up to 42oC.  We caught 4 good sized mud crabs so that was good.  We headed off about 4pm to find a camp site in the Daintree, we went the back road from Cooktown, very lovely drive but beware, at one point the road just got steeper and steeper, Dorothy couldn't climb any more, S tried to roll her back for another go, but that was too dangerous, black smoke started pouring from the bonnet as the clutch started to melt, somehow S managed to get her into low range and we got up that hill. Dorothy was not happy. We found a very nice camping spot in the middle of the forrest.

Today we have just been chilln there is a wild mango tree, that has some ripe mangos so we collected those and ate some, we ate 2 of the mud crabs for lunch, a water monitor came to visit and ate our scraps. We've also been eating some of the coconuts we found on the beach at Annan river, they are delicious. S likes them when that start to sprout and you get a kind of fairy floss inside, I like them better when they are brown but not yet sprouted. We'll probably head off towards cape tribulation tomorrow, we don't want to get to Cairns until I get my pay on Monday.

Out camp is located at 15o58'1.70" S 145o22'31.63" E elevation 168mtrs
The water in the creek is clear and safe to swim in, but there are no brim or cherabin only turtles and water monitors.  There is some kind of fruit that may be edible, looks kind of like a avocado and tastes a bit like honey dew melon, will collect some and check out when I have reception.


Posted Today Sunday 13th January 2013

We set of early yesterday hoping to find another campsite in the park.  Unfortunatly we couldn't find one.  The official camp site closes from 06/01 - 29/03 every year and there is nowhere you can get off the road far enough to have a bush camp.  We found a couple of likely spots but the first had a sticky-nose neighbour who I'm sure would have reported unauthorised camping and the second was chokers with mozzies.  So we headed across on the ferry and now we are just outside of Mt Molloy.  There is a free 48hr camp here at Rifle Creek . S says it's a bad spot because he broke the shovel when he backed in, but I think it is quite a nice spot for a day or two.  We have to stay here today as I don't get paid until tomorrow. There are showers, toilets and water in taps… luxury!!! There are signs warning that the water has not been treated but as we always drink creek water, I don't think that will be a problem for us.  Last night we cooked up the last 2 mud-crabs they looked beautiful but they were empty :o( so we had them for entree  and I mad some spag boll for dinner.  Today we're just gonna chill got some pots in the creek so we might get some redclaw see what happens.

PS I've used up all of my downloads so I can't post any pix till after 15th I'll try & be more careful next month.

(will be off to chocky factory tomorrow ;oD