We set off with our motorhome from Sydney on a tour along the east coast of Australia. The route will take us via New South Wales and Queensland to the tip of the east coast to Cape York. A daring undertaking in view of the huge distance, which we then have to drive back. We would like to share some impressions of this tour on this page.
CAPE YORK PENINSULA
The northernmost tip of Australin’s east coast is a truly wild, unspoilt natural beauty. This peninsula is crossed by a 1000 km long track, which should only be used with a four-wheel drive vehicle and only by experienced drivers.
We take the last opportunity and book a night in a small hotel to do something good for ourselves and refresh our supplies the next day for the tour into the wilderness.
Then it starts the next morning. The Peninsula Developmental Road is sometimes a flat track and suddenly and unexpectedly a churning path that leads over rocks and rough terrain. In addition, numerous rivers have to be crossed even during the dry season. Such challenges are probably to be found in the world. Once again we find the testimony of transience on the road. We bury the skull, which has long since solidified, on a pole.
Vast swamp landscapes alternate from rugged mountains and clear rivers and rushing waterfalls to arid steppe landscapes. In addition to the hard roads, there are also hungry crocodiles and a few King Brown Snakes and other poisonous creatures. And you can’t even swim in the sea so unscathed, because of the crocodiles and also because of the stingers, which are feared throughout Australia.
The diversity of this landscape is almost inexhaustible. The huge termite mounds in a barren landscape form a deep contrast to the deep green dense tropical rainforest.
