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Cape York News #067 - Season's Greetings, Road Report, Destination Guide 2018 Out Shortly December 29, 2017 |
Hi everyone,  I really hope that You had a lovely Christmas and that you are in for an amazing New Year :-) PDR ROAD REPORT I also have a road report from my last drive up along the PDR, and all in all the road was very good, and mostly graded. Sorry that some wrong-doers have made this needing a mention: These newsletters are subject to the Law of Copyright - the only way to legally spread them is a link to this page or a proper Facebook share (cropping text and photos out of it to use them to build one's own Facebook post is ILLEGAL).  Laura to
Musgrave
The southernmost end - Laura to Musgrave - was a little corrugated in places, but nothing bad. The roadworks north of Laura had proceeded a lot since I last drove past about a month earlier.  Musgrave to
Coen
Musgrave to Coen was worse, and it's always a dusty stretch - so the main problem was dustholes, and I don't have photos of the worst ones, it finally got too dark to take photos.  Coen to Archer
Coen to Archer is always a bad section, and it was no different this time - it was the worst of the whole road, mainly with dustholes.  Telegraph Road
Archer to Bamaga turnoff is now all sealed; and after the Bamaga turnoff (what's called the Telegraph Road), was mostly excellent.  Southern Bypass
Southern Bypass was mostly very good, except some corrugations in the many bends that this road has.  Northern Bypass
Northern Bypass was mostly good, except the northern end, which always is quite badly corrugated (and again, the photo above is not of the worst corrugations). OTHER ROADS While the PDR stays open until a river goes up high enough to cut it off - many other, smaller roads get closed for the whole wet season. This year, many of the roads that got closed first are in the Lakefield area, Palmerville area, and in the central south of the peninsula. In the Lakefield area - the Marina Plains Road, the road into Cape Melville, the northern section of Starcke Wakooka Road, and the Lakefield Road (which is the one through the Laura and Kalpowar ranger stations) are closed, while Battle Camp Road, and the southern section of the Starcke Wakooka Road are still open.  The junction
of Kimba and Killarney Road
In the Palmerville area - Whites Creek Road, Maytown to Palmerville Road, and Fairview - Palmerville Road are closed. In the central southern parts of the peninsula - Killarney Road, Dixie to Kimba, and Kimba to Gamboola are closed, while the ones around Koolatah are still open at this stage. DESTINATION GUIDE 2018 OUT SHORTLY And last but not least - I have been (and still am) very busy updating the 2018 Destination Guide and it's got some good updates and improvements :-) I am working on having it out on the Saturday 6. January at the latest - and I will send a newsletter as soon as it is out :-)  The Caravan Booklet is still planned to come out in February, and the Camper Trailer Booklet in March. And both will be available to you no matter when you buy the main guide :-) FEEDBACK ALWAYS WELCOME I really appreciate any kind of feedback on the Destination Guide. Please let me know if you enjoyed it while planning before the trip, and while using the information once on the trip. If you get any questions about anything, please feel welcome to contact me. That's all for this time - happy planning, and happy travels to those on the road!! Have a great day :-) Katrin. P. S. If you cannot see the photo banner in the top of this page, instead of photos you only see photo texts, and instead of links you see url addresses throughout the text, you are using email software that only reads text. Consider getting an email account with Yahoo or others that can read HTML (and remember to change your email address, which can be done in the end of every newsletter. |
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