Daniel and Marysia around Australia: Fruit Bat Falls to Seisa, Cape York.

Fruit Bat Falls from the Board Walk

Fruit Bat Falls is a day visit area, definitely a treat to visit. The water is crystal clear as it makes its way down to Eliot Falls into the Jardine River. The ledge above from where the waterfall drops down into is made up of huge red, gold coloured rock that has a smooth face but can be slippery sometimes depending if moss has grown over it. Walking along this rock face was amazing. We could see hidden small, deep, large, shallow rockpools all over the face of the rock.

Time to say goodbye to this ancient beauty to hit the track againg. Heading on further north we
crossed Canal creek crossing before coming to a junction. Deciding to take the Bamaga Road bypass instead of the Jardine River crossing it was time to say goodbye to the this famous 4 wheel drive track.

Even have time for fruit at Fruit Bat Falls

We're all very glad that we'd done it. I'm not sure if I had mentioned it before this track is a single lane of dirt road, so you have to make way for other vehicles coming in the opposite direction. The road can be grey sands, red sands, Cavernous, ridges, rocks, stones, steep gradients. The road is a hiker's, biker's, mountain biker's dream route. A 4 wheel drive car on this road becomes another animal.

We get to the Jardine River ferry crossing for which we pay $88.00 return to cross the Jardine River all of about 50 to 60 metres. Driving on we headed to see where the crossing of the river was before deciding that we'd had enough 4 wheel driving and headed on to Seisa, but not before stopping at Bamaga for some supplies and also checking out Loyalty Beach. However, concensus decided that we would stop only for one night at Seisa Holiday resort. We had a beach view which was lovely but looked forward to the next day to head out to Punsand Bay to stay a couple of nights here before arriving at the top at Cape York.