Sunday, Jun 30, 2013 at 15:20
Hi Stuart
Yes we find the place beautiful and fascinating. We were travelling around and wanted to experience
Cape York and found this place to caretake. We were going to give it a year to experience a tropical Wet Season, but have been here nearly 3yrs now and expect to stay couple more. I work in
Lockhart River now and my partner Seamus manages the
Shack and builds websites.
We stay all year, it is very hot and humid in the wet but if you can handle it the water is perfectly calm (in between cyclones). It is the best for boating, fishing and bird watching.
The photo of Rocky Island in the header of our blog is taken in the wet.
Though the roads are usually cut so it wouldn't suit you and Gunny as you have to fly in.
We don't have air con as we are on solar and
generator power so we live with the elements.
The camping is in National Parks so that would be a problem with Gunny, you couldn't take him to
Chili Beach.
We take dogs at our place, but that is not camping. If you want to
camp and are self sufficient we could
check with the locals if they allow dogs at the campgrounds they are developing and you could have a shower and do washing at our place (for a small fee) if we don't have anyone booked in.
You can't buy alcohol, or take alcohol into
Lockhart but you bring your own to Chili and Port.
Portland Roads is sleepy hollow now, with about 10 houses and about 10 residents. It was very busy in the gold mining days. There was a jetty to load ships up with gold and bring in equipment. The jetty was also used in WWII, it was demolished in 1960's.
There are also lots of stories from the 70's and 80's when it was jumping with hippies and fishermen.
It is a regular stop for yachts going from
Cape York to Torres Strait
Cheers Cate
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