We're In Cape York

It's week three and we've driven 4900km averaging 233km per day. We have also, by the end of the day spent 72 hours in the car averaging 3 hours and 24 minutes per day.
In Cairns we stayed at a caravan park for two nights. On the full day Mary, Mum and I went shopping and the Ben, Dad and Henk went to some camping shops. After Cairns we drove up to Laura, a town in Cape York. That night we stayed next to a river that we could swim in. After we set the camper up we went for a swim. The next day we started on the dirt road. We made it to Coen that day and again there was a creek we could swim in. That night we put an opera net in to try and catch some yabbies. At first we only got one, then we moved it to deeper water and the boys went to check it after we were in bed and had caught a big catfish so they had to move it again. In the morning we checked it again and this time we had heaps. Altogether we had 20 yabbies and 1 cherabin (a fresh water prawn.) The next day we drove up to Weipa. Weipa is a mining town, it mines Bauxite which is used to make Aluminium. When you are in the mining area traffic lights randomly pop up every where. Once we saw a big mine truck drive past when we were stopped at the mine lights. We also saw a big train carrying Bauxite. On Thursday we went to Pennyfarther beach. It was hot and there was rubbish everywhere.Read more