An Insider
Guide to Help You to Plan Your Trip to One of
Australia's Last Frontiers
This Destination Cape
York Australia Travel Guide is based on real
experiences written
by a local
- not a
tourism organisation
or a travel agency (we
live on the peninsula and are out here, on the
tracks, not in an office in Cairns or Brisbane :-)
It means
I
don't only
write about
places - I
have made this website to
help you
with planning
your own great adventure trip.
It also means I don't only cover the obvious tourism attractions, but
also the locals' spots
that you don't hear about elsewhere.
I cover the
most popular activities such as fishing,
bush camping, driving the Old
Telegraph Track
.. and not only that, I
tell you about the
best spots and tracks where to fish, camp and four wheel drive.
Fishing
in Mapoon,
north of Weipa.
I also tell
you about the
history,
geology
and wildlife
of the
region, and where you can see the unique plants, birds and animals that the peninsula only shares
with Papua
New
Guinea - and not the rest of Australia.
A deadly
saltwater crocodile, near Crab
Island.
You will also
find the practical
information about planning
your trip, what things are good to know and what
can be dangerous.
Brolgas, Jardine
River.
It is
like going for a trip with
a local. Ready for a quick look?
Cairns
is south of the peninsula, but
because
any traveller to the peninsula is most likely to spend some time in
Cairns,
I
have covered the city.
The beautiful cliff face nicknamed
"Queensland's Uluru".
* Inland from
Cairns are Kuranda,
Mareeba, Dimbulah,
the historicalHodgkinson
River Goldfields, Almaden, Chillagoe,
and the Burke
Developmental Road that takes you to Karumba and
Normanton,
Pormpuraaw and Kowanyama,
in another beautiful area - the Gulf Savannah.
Remote communities on Gulf Savannah: Pormpuraaw.
* Along
the coastal waynorth of Cairns
is Cook Highway
with Cairns northern beaches,
Port
Douglas,
Mossman, Daintree and
Cape Tribulation, and after that the unsealed Bloomfield Road to
Cooktown,
and further north Lakefield,
Starcke, Cape
Melville and Bathurst Head.
Driving
the Starcke Wakooka Track
to Cape Melville.
* And along
the inland way
north towards Cape York - Mulligan
Highway and the Peninsula
Developmental Road aka PDR - are the historical mining
towns Mt Molloy and
Mt
Carbine, the famous Palmer
River Goldfields,
and then Lakeland, Laura
and Musgrave.
* Further north, on the central Cape York peninsula,
are Princess
Charlotte Bay, Coen,
Oyala Thumotang National Park (former Mungkan Kaanju), Archer
River, Iron
Range
National Park
and Weipa.
Northernmost
point of mainland Australia (behind are just two small
islands).
* And in the northernmost Cape York
are the Northern
Peninsula Area
and Tip of Cape York - the northernmost point of mainland Australia.
* Off the coast
are the beautiful Torres
Strait Islands, amongst some very blue waters on a sunny day.
Horn
Island, Torres Strait.
But these are only some
of the most
obvious places.
There are countless great
beaches, islands, waterfalls, swimming holes, and camping spots
that
most people don't know about
:-)
Fruit
Bat Falls -
a great
swimming hole (not a secret).
And here
are some of the best gems
reminding you that the Old Telegraph Track is far from the only fun on
the peninsula :-) (and you find them all on the Site Map of this
website - with full info in the Destination
Guide).
Tracks of Cape York
Old
Coach Road
CREB Track
Bloomfield
Coloured Sands
Cape
Bedford
Cape Flattery
Starcke
Wakooka TrackBathurst
Head
Cape
Melville
Running
Creek Track
Silver Plains
Old
Coen Track
Pennefather
Stones
Crossing
Skardon River
Old Telegraph Track
Frenchmans Track
East Coast Drive
Jardine River
Ford
Ussher Point
Sadd Point
Mutee
Head
Jardine Mouth
Newcastle Bay Area
Larradinya
Roma Flats
Five
Beaches
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website to your friends, and don't like reading out "cape dash york dash australia
dot
com, the
name has now changed to www.CapeYorkAustralia.com
all in one word, and it
still redirects from the old version with the dashes
:-)
Get
this 50 pages
guide totally for FREE.
It
contains information that helps you getting started with planning of your trip.
You get to make early-stages desicions such as when to go, how long time you
should take, how to get
there and get
around, where
to stay (general info), what
will it cost..
and a short insight to what is there to see and do in Cape York.
This complete 300 pages
travel guide is all you need before and during your trip. Besides the
background chapters on the peninsula's history and wildlife; and the comprehensive detail about all
the places (down to prices, opening hours and full contact
detail), it has invaluable information on at least 10 four wheel drive tracks,
at least 30 guaranteed FREE
camping spots on the Cape (and at least 150 on your way to
the Cape), at least 40 best
swimming holes, all mapped; as well as practical things -
from fuel, roads, wireless internet and mobile phone reception,
how to deal with the national
parks booking rules; and Aboriginal land entrance and camping permits
and alcohol restrictions - to vehicle preparation and accessories and necessary recovery
gear by my vehicle-recovery-guy partner).
Not to mention locals'
tips on how to spot that croc and palm cockatoo ;-)
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This site uses British
English, which is the English we use in
Australia.
Disclaimer:
Although
best efforts have been made to ensure that all the information on this
website is correct, this site is not to be blamed should there be a
mistake.
This is the ORIGINAL Cape York Travel Guide run Locally on the Peninsula.