CAPE YORK Top Ten Tips for the Tip

Hi past and future Cape adventurers. Here's a few thoughts, some light, some heavy.
1. The Capes windiest beach - Chili or Billy? At the Captains it blew a gale all night, didn't get below 25 degrees and light sleepers won't get a wink. The Qld NPWS put the toilet in the only spot out of the wind. Only first campers in get the wind screen.
2. Lockhart River Airport - be sobered at the WW2 memorial.
3. The Capes most trashed beach - Quintel. The poster in the Cooktown NPWS office looked so nice too.
4. The Croc Tent - visit Terry and Davida and buy a brooch. They'll give you a map and help with things to do.
5. The 5 Beaches Round Trip - this will fill in the afternoon after seeing the Tip. Be a young hoon again and do some donuts on the beach.
6. Eliot, Twin and Fruitbat Falls - bring your goggles and snorkel. Worth a 2 night stay. You can do 5 creek crossings on the OTR in just 10km from here.
7. Seisia sunset - walk up beach so sun sets over water and watch for a green flash but 30 sec after it's a midge attack so watch those photographers run.
8. Signposts, what signposts?
9. A 9kg gas bottle refill is $40 at the fishing shop at Seisia but $6/kg at Archer = $54!! Ouch! Cairns $32, Liverpool $15.
10. Vrilya Point - 21 trees across the track in 28km then 8 clicks up the beach to the shipwreck. See it fast before it's rusted away.
Cheers, Warrie
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