First off-road river crossing

Bloomfield Track. Or to use it’s least romantic name: Daintree-Bloomfield Road.

We left Cape Tribulation on lovely bitumen, which soon turned to gravel. We were passed by a few big off-road motorbikes before being stopped by a traffic jam of them. They were all queued to cross a creek.
My initial plan was to let them all go, so I wouldn’t have too many spectators if I were to get myself stuck (this being my first off-Road river crossing with the van. Then it occurred to me, it would only take a few beers to have all these big tough bikies help push me out. Away we’re went and sailed through. There were several other crossings but this was the widest.
The most alarming sections were the really steep climbs.
The steepest was 31% but there were a few at 21-27% and one of those was clay. Everything in the forest is wet, so it was pretty slippery.Read more