I enjoyed my time in Cooktown more than I expected, it’s uber relaxed, super friendly and obviously very proud of its history. Leaving Cooktown on the Mulligan Highway I crossed the Anan river which is now infamous for it’s “crocodile bend”. Previously this had become a tourist attraction due to the prevalence of large wild […]

On leaving Thursday Island I suppose I could have felt a bit downhearted, I was currently batting at 0 from 2, I didn’t get to see the Morning Glory or set foot on Booby Island, but I wasn’t! In fact as I got to reflect on my trip so far I was more than happy, […]

Having “summitted” by reaching Pajinka (the tip of Cape York and continental Australia’s most northerly point) last week the final hop, step and jump to my first lighthouse at Booby Island seemed to be a given. I was to take the ferry from Seisia to Thursday Island (TI to the locals), where I would rendezvous […]

Despite Lawrence’s reassurances I admit to being apprehensive as I set of to conquer the Cape. Over a thousand kilometres of notoriously rough roads and it was coming to the end of the dry season which meant the roads were at their worst, and if the rains arrived early I could get stranded for months! […]

Dropping down into Cairns from the Atherton tableland is an extraordinary drive, initially through verdant farmland, followed by dense rain forest and then 20kms of the longest, steepest most winding road I have ever driven on. Finally arriving in the outer suburbs of Cairns which was a bit of a shock, as far as I […]

The road from Burketown to Normanton is notorious for it’s 80km unsealed section but I found it to be almost better than the sealed road before it. The only notable feature on this stretch is Leichhardt falls, which was pretty tame when I was there and where I saw my first wild crocodile – a […]

After spending the better part of five days here, and not seeing what I came here to see I thought I’d be disappointed and feeling like I wasted my time, but the truth is that I don’t feel either of those things and in a way I’m sorry to be leaving. So I didn’t get […]

After 3,056kms I’ve made my first destination, Burketown at the bottom of the Gulf of Carpentaria. I guess I should explain that one of the “points” of this trip is NOT to race from point to point, but to take time to explore the places and people of interest that cross my path. To this […]

Firstly, to begin before the beginning I’m going to share some of my experiences in translating what was not much more than a thought bubble into reality. The starting point was to realise what I didn’t know – which was pretty much everything! While I had spent a lot of my life travelling most of […]