Cape York Day 7 Weipa to Fruit Bat Falls

The plan today was to go to Eliot Falls to camp for two nights. Eliot Falls is on the Old Telegraph Track, a very hairy 4WD track which Tim did years ago with Anthony. There are two entry points to the falls from the main road which Tim thought was closer/easier and I didn’t double check the plans with him.  Anyway the day didn’t quite work out as we thought.

The drive from Weipa to Bramwell Junction was easy, a few more giant anthills at Bramwell Junction.

 A check of the battery power, Tim’s latest concern 😉. But all is working well after a solid charge at Weipa last night.

The roadhouse and sign to the old track.

We chatted to the girl at the roadhouse who said that there was a water crossing to get to Eliot Falls from the South entry of the track so we did a loop round to come in from the North.  This involved 15km on the Peninsula Road, 7km on 4WD track to meet up with the Old Telegraph track and then another 7km on the Old Telegraph track. We hadn’t got far down the Old Telegraph track when we hit Sams Creek which looked like this:

Pictures don’t really show how tight it was looking to get out of it.  So we decided it wasn’t possible (or at least with the trailer), so we turned around and headed back to the South entry to look at that.

The water there was up to Tim’s waist and we weren’t keen to go through that much. 

By now it was 4pm and we were hot and bothered and disappointed so we went to Fruit Bat Falls which was only 3km from there off the main road, a beautiful sight and very refreshing.

We then found a spot not far from there to set up camp for the night. 

A lot of dust!  But it ended up a lovely peaceful night.