Day 8 23rd October Weipa to Berti creek via Old telegraph road

As cliched as it might sound, tonight the swag is set beside a babbling creek and I’m looking forward to sleeping beside it..... 

but before that happens there’s a bit of work to be done.

Bit of a disorganised and later departure from Weipa, little bit of shopping and  fuelling. 

With 11 people in 5 cars, it’s a bit like herding cats but we made it eventually.

Retracing our steps out of Weipa until we are looking for and find a left hand turn to Batavia Downs.

 A private property that provides a track to cut through to the Old Telegraph road.

It’s a rough old road but only approximately 25 kilometres so much easier than completely retracing our steps.

About 3 hours through some great looking scenery, extraordinary and huge anthills before arriving at Bramwell roadhouse for lunch.

 Really nice people but pretty expensive fuel.

Here we are splitting from Glenn and carol for the afternoon, we will begin our journey on the old telegraph road proper.

 Glenn and carol will take the the bypass road and will rejoin with us in berties creek where we will stay the night.(cue the babbling brook mentioned earlier)

Back to the OTT. We come to our first creek crossing and said to be the 2nd hardest behind the famous gunshot creek. 

It was a fine initiation but everyone made it across safely.

The afternoon was spent crossing creeks, enjoying the difficulty of the track, stopping for photos. 

It all took about 4 hours to travel the 30 odd kilometres.

Arriving at berties creek about 6 ish and immediately into togs and into the creek.

Now back to the sleeping in a swag beside the babbling creek.