Comment: Bloomfield Track

I know what you are saying, we went to the cape last year and after spending a fortune getting the 80 series ready for the expected treacherous terrain I was disappointed to see 2 Wheel drives happily making the trip.

Anyway it was a great adventure and we will certainly do the Bloomfield track again.

Regards

I did a 4WD bus tour along the Bloomfield with the family and friends 2 weeks ago. Port D to Cooktown. The thing that struck me and my 14yr old son was the amount of discarded,empty alcohol cans and stubbies lying beside the track. Because it's called a track does this mean that people consider the rules of the road no longer apply? Made me wonder about the capacity of some of the drivers using the track.We stopped at a lookout and were passed by two 4WDs and everyone in the vehicles had cans of grog going.I'm no wowser and enjoy a beer as much as anyone....but not in the car.

The Bloomfield Track hasn't really been a "track" now for over 10 years. In the wet there are a couple of crossing that become impassable but you can usually get through. I don't remember when the concrete runners on those steep sections went in but they were there in 2001 when I went up to check out the then "new" Wenlock River Bridge near the Old Moreton Telegraph Station.
The Wujal Wujal bridge is only very new....couple of months at the best....the old causeway was washed away in the 2011 floods and the road was actually closed for quite some time to through traffic.

We went up to the Cape last year and seeing the CREB was closed we thought the Bloomfield may be a bit of fun. Nothing further from the truth. It was just a dirt road with a few steep parts on it and a couple of creeks to cross. I would have happily taken my Kingswood up there. Please note that the Kingswood was a favourite to the point that it was NEVER touched or washed by anyone else but myself and our mechanics workshop owned by Doug Chivas place of Holden Dealer Team history.

That's how simple we thought the Bloomfield.

Phil