Cape York - Day 28, Calliope River to Glass House Mountains 13/07/2018

Last night was another cold night and climbing out of the swag was very hard, when we did emerge we were treated to a beautiful thick fog which burned off slowly as the sun rose. We weren’t in too much of a hurry today so we milled around camp waiting for the heavy dew on the roof top tent to dry off. Eventually we hit the road and made our way south on the Bruce Highway. Lunch stop fro today was Tiaro and from here it was a couple of hours drive and we were home.

This trip was fantastic and we are so glad we had this opportunity. We love heading out west into the deserts and were surprised at how much we enjoyed this trip. The 4wd tracks through the Creb, OTT and Frenchman's tracks were brilliant and our little Triton emerged relatively unscathed with some new pin stripes, rattles, bucket fulls of dust and some paint off the side steps and bash plates. Nothing a good clean/polish and touch up won't fix.

I'm so glad we took our time and prepared properly, we saw heaps of damaged cars ranging from rolled vehicles, to dented panels, snapped chassis and broken CVs. I reckon most of the damage could have been avoided if people slow down, take it easy, let your tyres down and don't be hero's...

We will definitely come back to the Cape there was so much we didn't get to see and we can see why some people come back to the Cape year after year. Now its back to normal life and work so we can build up our leave balances and fund our next trip to another part of this beautiful country.

Distance travelled = 470km

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