Stop #6 - Canal Creek (Old Telegraph Track)

This is the part of the trip where all the fun begins, lots of four wheel driving and a load of water crossings. The Old Telegraph Track is now well travelled every year during the dry season, so needless to say there is plenty of traffic, but it is all part of the fun seeing people work their way through some knarly inclines and descents going into and out of creek beds and not to mention taking part in the below footage...

After that excitement we made it to the famous Gunshot which i showed a picture of in a previous blog. We had heard by many different people on the way up that it was not passable and that a lot of people were getting stuck....or worse, but we had to check it out and this is what we were up against....to do or not to do.....lets DO!!!!

And this is the result.....

Ok so glad that is out of the system, now it is on to Canal Creek, which you will just have to take my word for it ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL. (I forgot to take a picture) The water was as clear as glass, and had a stunning clear greenish blue look to it with awesome white sand. Such a great spot...oops on the pictures though, you would think that with three nights here surely I would have remembered at least once!

Our Final Schedule

Below is our final schedule after a few revisions. This trip that we are doing has some of the toughest four wheel driving in Australia. The Old Telegraph Track has a particular section in it called the "Gunshot" which looks a little like this:

That's right, we will be driving our car down this! I can imagine it now, Tegan in the back seat going "Daddy what are you doing, eeeeehhhhh hhheeeeehh....you are going to make the car flip over Daddy, stop it" I think i will have to be outside of the car with her taking the pictures and guiding Justin through this!! Kodie on the other hand will most likely be laughing her head off saying weeeeee yay!!

THE SCHEDULE

June 12th - June 14th - Lakefield National Park

June 14th - June 15th - Archer River Roadhouse

June 15th - June 19th - Chili Beach

June 19th - June 24th - Weipa

June 24th - June 25th - Dalhunty River (Telegraph Track)

June 25th - June 27th - Canal Creek (Telegraph Track)

June 27th - June 28th - Bamaga

June 28th - July 1st - Thursday Island

July 1st - July 5th - Loyalty Beach

July 5th - July 7th - Camping along the Old Telegraph Track

July 7th - July 9th - Lakefield National Park

July 9th - July 10th - Palmer River Gold Reserve

July 10th - COME HOME!!!!

Well, that is all for now, more to come as the time nears!