Sunday, 17 June 2012

Cooktown to a beach

The REAL adventure has begun. Have now had my first experience of off road driving.



Crossed a couple of fairly deep river crossings. Kathy didn't want to be in the first car to cross so Brandt and John went first, then they talked me through. At the second crossing we made Brandt walk the crossing, and take a camera, and that meant that once again I got to drive the river crossing. Now Brandt is peeved that I got to do the driving through both of the deeper crossings. So here I am just entering the water.





The next photo shows how deep the water was at the deepest part - look at the wet line on Brandt's undies.



As we got further on, we started driving over sand dunes and I said to Brandt, "aren't you going to let your tyres down?" he said the base was firm enough. But then, on the next hill (which happened to be the last hill) John got a little stuck.








So we both let air out of tyres.



Luckily John is very experienced and after several methods of attack we were on our way again.

Got to the beach. The tide was coming in and as we now had to drive along the beach, the decision was made to find a suitable spot and set up camp for the night.



This was the first time we had put out the awning on the side of the vehicle. We inflated the bed and dossed down for the night.




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