Cape York Day 11 Bramwell Station to Musgrave Roadhouse

Memory is fading already....and I didn’t take enough snaps of our stops to remember the nitty gritty of the day. I think the majority was spent holding onto the car handle, the road was terrible, corrugations and dust. Oh that’s right, we stopped in Coen for lunch, more decisions on what we were planing to do, and then on our way again. It took over 2 hours to do 108km to Musgrave. The road was so bad.

I’ve had dust control duties. Usually the air is set to outside air circulation, but when a car or truck approaches I have to quickly switch the air to recycled inside air and full fan speed.  After all the dust settled then I need to switch the buttons back. The responsibility!





There are “roadhouses” along the Peninsula road which usually have a small shop, fuel, some takeaway food options and an eatery section as well. But then they have these huge green areas to camp on (plus some accomodation our the back).  Nothing like the roadhouses I have seen previously which are usually fast food and fuel on route somewhere.

The photos are at Musgrave again the following morning before leaving. We didn’t have such a good night as previously, a truck started up at 4am and the rooster was crowing from then onwards, but after heading to bed at 8.30 most nights we are pretty rested.



Hard to see, but this dam had little crocodiles in it.


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