Cape York News Back Issues
On this page you have the Cape York Newsletter back issues.
As you can see
these
newsletters can be a little irregular and also
seasonal .
The irregularity is because I am not pushing a monthly newsletter and
then
try to fill it with Cape York news that are not
relevant for travellers .
I prefer shorter newsletters with more relevant info for you as a
traveller, and I am sure you agree.
For that reason I write
when I have something to say instead of writing strictly
once a month whether I have anything to say or not.
The seasonality means
there
may be more newsletters during the Wet Season (January
- May)
than the Dry
Season (June - December).
It is because
from
January on the majority of people plan
their trip, need the news for their trip, early season travellers need
to know how the roads are in the late Wet Season, and there are
always some cyclones
that could cause big road closures.
From June on
most people are on the tracks, the roads are dry enough, there are no
more cyclones,
we
are also on the tracks getting updates.
And
in the end of the
year
there is less interest when everyone is busy getting ready for
Christmas, while I am also busy myself, getting all
the updates into the Destination Guide to be ready to go in January.
That is why
you may
find more newsletters in the first than in the second half of
the year ,
when you may not hear from me for a month or two sometimes.
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#131 - July 2023 - Roads and Unseasonal Rains, Cape Melville Opening Delayed, Coming Events Issue
#130 - June 2023 - Tourist Season, Roads, National Parks
Opening, Coming Events
Issue
#129 - May 2023 - Weather, Season, and the Road, National Parks
Opening, Coming Events
Issue
#128 - April 2023 - The Season, Coming Events, and Prices Updated in
the Destination Guide :-)
Issue
#127 - March 2023 - Wet Season and Floods, Trailer Guide Updated :-)
Issue
#126 - February 2023 - Wet Season so Far, Caravan Guide Updated :-)
Issue
#125 - January 2023 - Weather and Season, Doggie Guide Updated :-)
Issue
#124 - January 2023 - Destination Cape York 2023 Is Out :-)
Issue
#123 - December 2022 - Rains Have Arrived, National Parks Closed,
Pocket Guide Updated
Issue
#122 - October 2022 - Season and Weather, Road Report, Coming Events
Issue
#121 - August 2022 - National Parks Open, CREB Track Open, Other Bits
and Pieces, Coming Events
Issue
#120 - July 2022 - Rain and Tourist Season, National Parks' Openings,
Coming Events
Issue
#119 - June 2022 - Fresh Road Report, Coming Events, More Local
Businesses Open
Issue
#118 - May 2022 - Road, Weather and Season, Local Businesses Open,
Coming Events
Issue
#117 - April 2022 - Late Wet Season, PDR Closure, Prices Updated in the
Destination Guide
Issue
#116 - March 2022 - Weather and Season, Road Report, Trailer Guide
Updated
Issue
#115 - February 2022 - Wet Season So Far, Caravan Guide Updated
Issue
#114 - January 2022 - Latest Road Report, Doggie Guide Updated
Issue
#113 - January 2022 - Destination Guide 2022 is Out :-)
Issue
#112 - November 2021 - First Rains Arrived, Latest Road Report, Pocket
Guide Updated
Issue
#111 - October 2021 - Season and School Holidays, Road Report, and
Coming Events
Issue
#110 - August 2021 - Bramwell Station, Road Report, Coming Events
Issue
#109 - July 2021 - The Season, New Road Report, and Coming Events
Issue
#108 - July 2021 - Tourist Season, Road Report, Coming Events
Issue
#107 - May 2021 - Big Tourist Season Coming, Fresh Road Report, CREB
Track is Open
Issue
#106 - April 2021 - Latest on PDR and Jardine River Ferry, Prices
Updated in the Destination Guide :-)
Issue
#105 - March 2021 - Tip of Cape Open, Weather and Season, Trailer Guide
Updated :-)
Issue
#104 - February 2021 - This Month's Road Report, Caravan Guide Updated
:-)
Issue
#103 - January 2021 - Wet Season So Far, Doggie Guide Updated :-)
Issue
#102 - January 2021 - Destination Guide 2021 Is Out :-)
Issue
#101 - November 2020 - First Rains Arrived, Latest Road Report, Free
Pocket Guide Updated :-)
Issue
#100 - October 2020 - Tourist Season, Bamaga - Weipa Road Report
Issue
#099 - September 2020 - CREB Track Open, Latest Road Report
Issue
#098 - July 2020 - The Tip and Other Places Open for Travellers :-)
Issue
#097 - July 2020 - Borders Opening, Businesses Opening, Fresh Road
Report
Issue
#096 - May 2020 - Cape York Closures, 2020 Tourist Season, No More
Destination Guide Updates this Year
Issue
#095 - May 2020 - Cape York Closure, Weather, Website and Destination
Guide Updates
Issue
#094 - March 2020 - Temporary Cape York Closure, Weather and Season,
Trailer Guide Updated :-)
Issue
#093 - February 2020 - Weather and Wet Season So Far, Caravan Guide
Updated :-)
Issue
#092 - January 2020 - Season and Weather, Rivers Rising, Doggie Guide
2020 Out :-)
Issue
#091 - January 2020 - The Destination Cape York 2020 is out :-)
Issue
#090 - December 2019 - Road Report, This Year's Tracks, Pocket Guide
Updated, Destination Guide Next, Christmas Gift Cards Available :-)
Issue
#089 - October 2019 - Road Report, Updates on the Sealing of the PDR,
Coming Events
Issue
#088 - August 2019 - Road Report, Cape Melville and Oyala Thumotang
Open, Coming Events
Issue
#087 - July 2019 - The Season, The Road, Lakefield Opening Earlier than
Predicted
Issue
#086 - May 2019 - Road to the Tip Right Now, No More Destination Guide
Updates this Year
Issue
#085 - May 2019 - Main Road Open, Local Businesses Open, Prices Updated
in the Destination Guide
Issue
#084 - March 2019 - Mount Mulligan, the Wet Season, Trailer Guide Is Out
Issue
#083 - March 2019 - Sealing of the PDR, the Season, Caravan Guide
Updated
Issue
#082 - February 2019 - Wet Season So Far, Doggie Guide Updated,
Any-Occasion Gift Cards Now Available
Issue
#081 - January 2019 - The Destination Cape York 2019 is out :-)
Issue
#080 - December 2018 - Storms and Early Cyclone, Christmas Gift Cards
Available, Pocket Guide Updated, Trips of this Year :-)
Issue
#079 - November 2018 - Old Telegraph Track this Time of the Year :-)
Issue
#078 - October 2018 - Tourist Season Ending Soon,
Bamaga - Weipa Road, Latest Events
Issue
#077 - August 2018 - Weipa - Bamaga Road,
More Great Events, Changes on the Website
Issue
#076 - June 2018 - Tourist
Season Full On, National Parks Open Early, Great Events Coming Now
Issue
#075 - June 2018 - CREB Track Open, Bypass Road Report, No More
Destination Guide
Updates in 2018
Issue
#074 - May
2018 - Weather and Water Levels, Lakefield National Park Opening,
Coming Events
Issue
#073 - May 2018 - Dry April, Local Businesses Open, Prices Updated in
the
Destination Guide
Issue
#072 - April 2018 - PDR Open, But Still Need to Watch the Rivers If You
Are Coming
Up Now
Issue
#071 - April 2018 - PDR Closed, Wet Season Dramas, Answers about the
Trailer Guide
Issue
#070 - March 2018 - Silver Plains Closed, Wet Season So Far, Caravan
Guide Is Out
:-)
Issue
#069 - January 2018 - The Wet is Here, the Dog Guide Has Been Updated
Issue
#068 - January
2018 - Destination Guide 2018 Is Out :-)
Issue
#067 - December 2017 - Season's Greetings, Road Report, Destination
Guide 2018 Out
Shortly
Issue
#066 - November 2017 - BDR Road Report, National Park Closures, Camper
Trailer Booklet
with the Destination Guide
Issue
#065 - October
2017 - Rains in October, Last Events, Caravan Booklet with the
Destination Guide
Issue
#064 - September 2017 - PDR Road Report, Skardon River to Close for
Mining
Issue
#063 - August 2017 - Roads Corrugated, Bathurst Head Camping Finalised,
CREB Track
Open for the Season
Issue
#062 - July 2017 - Vrilya Point Updates, Bathurst Head Updates, Cape
Melville and
Starcke Track Open
Issue
#061 - June 2017 - Road Report, Oyala Thumotang Is Opening,
Bathurst Head
Updates
Issue
#060 - June 2017 - PDR Road Report, Lakefield Is Opening, Bathurst Head
Updates
Issue
#059 - May 2017 - Old Telegraph Track May 2017 - Full Coverage
:-)
Issue
#058 - April 2017 - The Season, the Recent Weather, and the Prices
Updated in the
Destination Guide
Issue
#057 - March 2017 - Vrilya Point Closed for the 2017 High Season, Pics
from Iron
Range, Doggie Booklet Is Out :-)
Issue
#056 - February 2017 - The Road, the Weather, Pocket Guide Updated
Issue
#055 - January 2017 - Destination Cape York 2017 Is Out!
Issue
#054 - December 2016 - Happy New Year, the Wet Is Here, Destination
Guide 2017 Will Be
Out Shortly
Issue
#053 - December 2016 - Vrilya Point Gated, National Parks
Closing, Caravan
Booklet to Go with the Destination Guide
Issue
#052 - October 2016 - Vrilya Point Updates, Last Events of the Season,
Dog Booklet to
Go with the Destination Guide
Issue
#051 - October 2016 - Jardine Ford Closed, Weather Warming Up, Rental
Company Info in
the Destination Guide
Issue
#050 - September 2016 - Vrilya Point Updates, Two Great Events Coming,
Caravan Info in
the Destination Guide
Issue
#049 - July 2016 - CREB Track Open, Roads Getting Corrugated, Creeks
and Rivers
Low this Year
Issue
#048 - July 2016 - Cape Melville, Bathurst Head and Starcke Track to
Open, and
Other Updates
Issue
#047 - May 2016 - Recent Rain Impact Almost Gone, Lakefield Reopens,
Two Great
Events Coming
Issue
#046 - April 2016 - Rainy in the North, Captain Billy's Landing To Be
Closed,
Prices Updated in the Destination Guide
Issue
#045 - March 2016 - Wet Season So Far, Vrilya Point Updates
Issue
#044 - February 2016 - PDR Updates, Dog Info in the Destination Guide
Issue
#043 - January 2016 - PDR Updates, Cooktown West Coast Hotel Reopens,
Road Report
Issue
#042 - January 2016 - Destination Guide 2016 Is Out!
Issue
#041 - January 2016 - Happy New Year, PDR Is Getting Impassable,
Destination Guide
2016 Will Be Out Soon
Issue
#040 - December 2015 - Rain, Roads and National Parks Close, Potential
Cyclone
Issue
#039 - July 2015 - CREB Track Open, Updates on Running Creek and Falls
Track
Issue
#038 - July 2015 - Cape Melville Open for the Season, Archer Bend
Closed for the
Year
Issue
#037 - June 2015 - Oyala Thumotang Open, Changes at Mount Mulligan
Station and
Tyrconnell Mine
Issue
#036 - May 2015 - Battlecamp Road and Southern Lakefield Open, Vrilya
Point Still
Closed, Austin 7 to Cape York
Issue
#035 - May 2015 - Vrilya Point Closed, Jardine River Ferry Ticket Price
DROPS,
Destination Guide Prices Updated
Issue
#034 - April 2015 - Road Report, Poor Wet Season, Website Mobile
Friendly
Issue
#033 - March 2015 - Cyclone Nathan in Cooktown, Wet Season So Far, Site
to
Go Mobile Friendly
Issue
#032 - February 2015 - PDR Closed, Bloomfield Not to Be Sealed, Links
Fixed
in Destination Guide
Issue
#031 - January 2015 - Happy New Year, The Wet Season Is Here,
Destination
Guide Updated
Issue
#030 - September 2014 - CREB Track Opens, Bloomfield River Has a
Bridge, What
Happened to Road Reports
Issue
#029 - May 2014 - Road Updates, Kimberley and Top End Travel Guides
Issue
#028 - April 2014 - Book Prices Updated, Post Ita Road Report
Issue
#027 - April 2014 - Ita's Aftermath and Damage
Issue
#026 - April 2014 - The Night with the Roaring Ita
Issue
#025 - April 2014 - Ita Downgraded to Category Four, I am Safe in
Cooktown
Cyclone Shelter
Issue
#024 - April 2014 - Cyclone Ita Category Five and a More Personal Report
Issue
#023 - April 2014 - Severe Tropical Cyclone Ita Predicted to Hit on
Friday
Issue
#022 - April 2014 - Early Season Travellers - Cyclone Ita Could Hit
Cape
York
Issue
#021 - March 2014 - Cyclone Gillian Reforms, Events Updated
Issue
#020 - March 2014 - Weipa Likely in for a Cyclone, Road Closed, Updates
Issue
#019 - February 2014 - Archer Point
Issue
#018 - February 2014 - The Wet Is Steady, Archer Point Camp Soon Not
Free,
Update on the Updates
Issue
#017 - January 2014 - Happy New Year, The Wet Has Started, A Little Bit
about the Plans
Issue
#016 - August 2013 - CREB Track Is Open, Changed Camping Conditions on
the
Track
Issue
#015 - June 2013 - Cape Melville Open, Laura Aboriginal Dance Festival
Great as Always
Issue
#014 - June 2013 - Road Conditions, Cheap Camping in Cooktown, Whale
Watching Season Is On
Issue
#013 - May 2013 - Jardine Ferry Ticket Price Goes Up, OTT Report
#2, Solar Eclipse 2013
Issue
#012 - May 2013 - Old Telegraph Track Report
Issue
#011 - May 2013 - Post Zane Road Report
Issue
#010 - May 2013 - Zane Downgraded to Tropical Low,
Impact News Later Today
Issue
#009 - April 2013 - Cyclone Zane Category Two and Growing
Issue
#008 - April 2013 - Cyclone Update - Low Pressure System Forms,
Cyclone Watch Issued
Issue
#007 - April 2013 - Late Cyclone - Expect Rain and Road Closures
in Cape York
Issue
#006 - April 2013 - Events 2013, Wet Season and Dengue Updates,
Book Updates
Issue
#005 - January 2013 - The Wet Is Finally Here, First Cyclone to Hit
Cape York, Roads Closing
Issue
#004 - January 2013 - Happy 2013, Latest Wet Ever, Dengue
Fever in Cairns
Issue
#003 - August 2012 - CREB Track closed, link to where you can check
its state any time
Issue
#002 - August 2012 - The CREB Track Is Now Open
Issue
#001 - June 2012 - The Very First Newsletter!
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