Leaving the caravan at Mt Carbine with the very nice people who own the park, we head out not really knowing where we will stop for the night.We end up at Morehead River rest area free camp.
We have travelled about 350km a lot more than we normally travel and not what we intended, but nothing looked inviting on the way.
We pulled of and there is supposed to be toilets and we could not find them and lots of people stay here so we thought we might go across the road on the track beside the river and camp. We have to use the shovel anyway so better were not many have been before.We had a peaceful night and after a walk down the dry creek bed we set of again.
We intended to go to the top just stopping at night and doing all the side tracks on the way back, so the next jump was Archer creek road house another 174km. We did pass through Coen and could have stopped but I did not like the look of the place. We did pull up at a place called The Bend right on the creek and had lunch and could have stayed only 10 or so cars full of young aboriginal football players pulled up and set up camp for after the game in Coen. This would only mean one thing and we were right , as we found out latter. We met people who did stop and they said you could hear the punches landing and everything else. Its a shame it was a very nice little spot on the creek. Anyway Archer creek road house had hot showers and clean toilet blocks and a nice walk along the dry creek bed.We did still get to here the aftermath of the football match ,as some of onlookers had camped on the banks of Archer creek and they arrived back at about 4am playing very loud music and fighting.
Next was a jump of 168km to The Bramwell junction roadhouse. This my not seem far but you have to remember that this road is only a dirt road with very bad corrugations in places and is not for travelling too fast.
This road house is at the junction of this main dirt road and the old Telegraph track which also goes to the tip of Australia .At least once a year the main dirt road is graded whereas the track is 4 wheel drive only with some bad creek crossings, and from now on north the creeks start to have water in them.
The road house is not as clean as the one before but has hot water etc.
From now on even the main dirt road gets worse and and we decide to do a side trip to the east coast but we miss the turning, not much in the way of sign posts here. We only new because we find the turning into Fruit Bat Falls {we were to do this side track on the way back but plans change} so in we go ,we are now on the 4 wheel drive only track[The old telegraph track ]
Beautiful falls you can swim in so we do but you are not allowed to stay the night so we swim, have lunch and push on to the next falls where we can camp.
We do have a creek crossing to make which if you take the wrong track across you could have problems but we walk it and lucky for us , a young man who has crossed before shows us the best way across. We make the next set of waterfalls and we stay here a couple of nights. These are Eliot Falls, Twin falls and the Saucepan with falls.
While we are there a group of cars arrive bringing with them a broken car they had rescued. The rescued people and their car had come to grief on one of the more notorious creek crossings. I am glad we had bypassed this, as it had tipped them side ways and taken off their roof top tent on the bank and left them stranded in the water for a coupe of hours. Well every body pitched in to help them Larry did some bracket straightening to get their tent back up and on the roof.
The falls are very good went snorkelling in the deepest and found some fish and turtles. We stayed for another night after the broken down people left but we were to meet again at the camp at the most northerly beach in Australia, Punsand Bay.
We had 2 more creek crossings to get out of there and back on to the road to get the ferry across the very large Jardine river. The mighty Jardine river flows all year and is Queenslands largest perennial river.
These 2 crossings I was worried about, but we got out and walked across and Larry chose the route across, I stayed on the other side to take photos and panic.
We got across and to the ferry, paid our money and was now in the very top of Cape York. The road is a little worse and a little better in places but we make Punsand Bay after stopping in a place called Seisia for bread and fruit.
The main town of the top is Bamaga with post office and government services and a small industrial area.population bout 300
Well the people we helped, Wayne and Helen have booked us in at Punsand bay and as a thankyou have paid for our first two nights. Very nice, Larry asked them to dinner as I had[ bought a small chicken to make a roast dinner for him. Using my Cobb cooker we had roast potatoes, carrots and onion and canned beans and of course they all shared the chicken. So we sat around looking across the ocean having dinner and wine with solar lights. Good.
The ocean looked so inviting we had risked a quick dip after we had set up the tent etc, and put on dinner. There is a resident 4 metre crocodile they call Garry, he patrols the shore line especially when any other crocodiles call by. As long as you only take a quick dip when the sun is shinning during the day so you can see his shadow and one watches while one takes a quick cool down.
We planned to take the helicopter ride over the tip and islands the next day , then drive the 11km to the car park at the tip and do the walk to the sign post, the day after that as we had to put the tent down to drive anywhere. This did not happen, the helicopter would not be flying until friday. 
 So we packed the tent and went driving the back way to the tip through the mangroves and sand 4 wheel driving again -Larry getting to like this too much for my liking.. You drive rough road there and dirt road back , travel clockwise as you can not pass anybody on road.Anyway we get there and park the car and start the trek up and over the cliffs to the last piece of land of Australia. This is them most northerly point of the mainland only Thursday island is more north that is Australian, and you catch a ferry over and have lunch in Australia’s most north hotel. Of course you look at the island and its history of pearl divers and its part in the war aswell.
We took photos at the tip then trust me I was looking at the crabs and mud skippers in a rook pool and fell in ,camera and all. I bet i'm the record holder for being the person furtherest north on mainland Australia to fall over or something like that. We are 10 deg south of the equator.
Coral sea to the east, Arafura sea and Gulf of Carpentaria to the west, Torres straight to the north and Papua New Guinea 180 km away.
We walked back via the beach and mangroves as the tide was out, you climb down the rocks and then onto the beach a much easier walk, which you don't do if tide is coming in, even if you only in knee deep water as , yes you guessed there are salt water crocodiles here...
On the way back to camp we walked around a forest walk and heard a lot of birds we did not know but could not see them in all the tree leaves. Did find a giant snail shell .
Got back to camp and had a quick dip in the ocean before going to the tiny swimming pool, which is just like a backyard pool. Still no sign of Garry the crocodile but we will not tempt fate swimming in ocean, it looks very tempting though.
Next day helicopter flight over the tip and islands and place where cook landed and the pearl operations on one island. Only lasted ½ hour not long enough, 3 people in helicopter for cheaper price so we had another lady with us. Still $190.00 each but good.
The rest of the day just relaxing and typing this ready to send . I can not post yet as we do not have any wi-fi connection just some time some phone if you stand on the beach with a leg in the air.
We moved down to another beach today just to relax and catch up on a few things have reception sometimes. This place is called Loyality beach and we are camped on the sand again but still no swimming. Found some giant white lipped green tree frogs in the shower and small lizards around our camp. There is a couple of marbled frogmouths in one of the trees during the day. We are here for three days to relax and just walk the beach before starting the return trip south of Cape York. We are still not sure where we are going or what side trips that will be next time I wright.