Sunday... 22 July 2012

Well here we are at the top of Australia!
Today we went and saw/touched the sign that says you are now at the northern most point of Australia. Wow.  Another big tick in the bucket list.

The drive to get here was a bit hairy, and then to cap it all off the drive to the top was even hairyer!  Only 44kms out from town, but it had everything from corrugations to potholes to one lane tracks through rain forest that covered the road like a tunnel and a water crossing through fairly deep water . Then when we pulled into the carparking area it became apparent that nothing is easy, we now had to do a 20mins hike over rock in a high wind area to actually reach the objective. Not a hard climb, and the views are spectacular. To the right is the Coral Sea, in front is Torres Strait and to the left is the Arafura Sea. And islands. Lots of islands, big and small. If you get there at low tide you can actually walk around to the point along the waters edge if you keep a sharp look out for the crocodiles that call that patch of sand and mangroves their territory.
Been there done that!!

On the way back to camp we found some plane wrecks in the bush around the Bamaga airport.