Cape York 2, Queensland.

The river crossings begin!

Next morning up early boys organised their fishing rods heading out towards Chilli Creek River. This spot was lovely at the mouth of Chilli Beach on a sand bank.  Again we were all on the look out for crocodiles which were there amongst the mangrove banks.  In fact I am really sure that I did see a small croc just below the water level where Daniel and Stew had thrown in their lines. It wasn't until a little later that Stew had also said that he'd noticed the water in front of him seemed to be muddy with motion.

Les and I sat on the bank of the river cautiously scrutinising the banks as we read when Stew reels in a beautiful catch for the day....in fact the only catch of  the day!  Daniel's line with bait kept getting taken, broken off by the bites he was getting but no catch, alas!  Having spent almost 2 hours it was time to take a drive into Lockhard River.  About 30 kilometres away.  I had hoped to get some more water for us for another night's stay.  We arrived to the Aboriginal community found the store, but they didn't stock the water. Couldn't find the local Art Centre that's written about in the Cape York Tourist Information Booklet before heading to the Lockhard River Airport that was purposely built during the 2nd World War for the American Air Force in the Pacific Region. 

Chili Beach

Our return trip back to Chilli Beach we headed out to the other side of the Range to Portland
Roads, Cape Weymouth.  A picturesque littly community with a cafe, opening hours between 10am to 2pm.  Some lodgings available with some homes being offered as holiday accommodation.  My turn to practice 4wheel driving as the terrain wasn't that bad!  As we drove we were both practicing lyrics to our chosen songs on the guitar to add to our repetoire!  We'd managed to memorise 2 songs by this stage: House of the Rising Sun and Strawberries, Cherries.  Even if I have to say so myself I reckon we might actually be getting somewhere with this music!!

Lots of palms......and coconuts!

Our last night at Chilli beach was spent with dinner of steak for us, Les and Stew's catch of
the day!  Dishes done, wood collected on the drive back from Cape Weymouth, the fire roared
for a few hours with more of Les and Stew's music of 7000 items on their iPod! We settled for
a lot of the oldie stuff dating back to the '60's! Dusty Springfield, Dean Martin, Nat King Cole,
Bobby Darrin, Frank Sinatra, Englebert Humperdink and plenty more as we poured more red singing all the words!

Go and catch some dinner Daniel!