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This is Chris fishing in the Delhunty River. It was a lovely spot, but no fish wanted to sacrifice themselves. In fact we have not caught anything since Alan's momentous Fraser Island effort. . . but not for want of trying.

I forgot to mention we went to Weipa before we went to the Jardine River. We needed some running repairs on the electric system of our car and we stocked up on groceries. We did the mine tour of the Bauxite mine which is really the only thing in Weipa!

We continued north from Jardine River and had 5 nights at the top. It is such an unusual place. The geography and vegetation are constantly changing - its not all tropical rainforest as I had expected. There are heathlands, plains, the rainforest and eucalyptus forests it quite surprising. There's Aboriginal History as well as WW II history and pioneer settlement stuff as well. We went to Thursday Island which was really different culturally to the Mainland. Chris and Glenys also went to Horn island which was a great WWII history but I was scared of the boat ride, so we didn't go. The other photo is a crashed Beaufort Bomber near Bamaga Airport. These planes were built in NSW railway workshops during the war years.

I have discovered that I can only upload two photos successfully per blog so I will post this and start another one with the Cape York photos.