Get lost with Russ and Margy: Cape York Trip 2017

After much preparation, reading, purchasing a new car and canopy and spending hours organising many things, we left home at 8am on 9^th June on our much awaited trip to Cape York. Two lovely days with family at Ballina and new bathroom walls for Kurt meant we hardly noticed the dreadful rainy weather. A visit to the Brisbane Caravan and Camping Show, again in the rain, passed without spending more than a few hundred dollars – amazing! We had a lovely evening with my cousins Kerry and Wendy and their husbands Colin and Graham. We then took off up north, via the amazing brothers Toby and Dan at Bruder Trailers in SW Brisbane.

We called in at Archer River Crossing (South), Judd’s Lagoon and the lonely Lonesome NP as well as the very understated Nuga Nuga NP where we saw hundreds of birds – Magpie Geese, Black Swans, Whistling Kite stealing eggs from the Little Black Cormorant nests. It may not have made any difference overall because there were thousands of Little Black Cormorants – the ground was white with their guano. We could hear ducks taking off and landing all night – beautiful sound.