WEST COAST CAPE YORK - Roothy
Автокөліктер мен көлік құралдары
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So what's the west coast of Cape York like? Well, there's not many people head out that way because it's not promoted and not well known. That means adventure!
In this old dvd we head west down the Strathgordon Road towards Pormpuraaw, an Aboriginal community of about 600 people on the coast. Originally Pormpa was an Anglican mission established in 1938 and it still has a very active church if the singing on a Sunday is anything to go by. There's a primary school, a health clinic and a couple of shops but it's one of those places that's certainly not set up for visitors. Get there on the wrong day and you'll have Buckley's of fuelling up!
However while the road to Pormpuraaw is one of the best up the Cape we only intended using it to access a little known track that winds it's way south through the old 'Strath' properties before, hopefully, making the coast. I say hopefully because nobody we spoke to could remember anybody driving that track since the land was handed back to the indigenous peoples. It showed on the Hema, we had no problems finding the start of it but at times over the next few days we lost all trace of it more than once.
This is, of course, what makes a Cape trip an adventure. Even this far south the country is belted severely by every wet season so you can expect trees across the tracks and river crossings that have washed away. Once this land was some of the best cattle grazing country in Australia with it's massive well watered grassy plains but these days the only stock you'll see are the beasts that got away. Like most of Australia when it's not managed properly, there were signs of pigs everywhere and plenty to be seen too.
By the time we got to the Coleman River crossing we found everything that made this trip in one place. First of all, the crossing wasn't visible and we had to clear some trees to even get close. Then we could see the evidence of big pigs rooting around in the rushes and finally, during the crossing itself, the sand that the Wet had piled up proved too soft to be driven easily.
When you're a hundred or so kilometres off the beaten track, following a blip on the Hema and only copping the odd sign of there ever having been a track in existence anyway you know you're in for an adventure. This is one place I'll be coming back to. There's something very magical about the huge great tracts of land along the lower west coast of the Cape and it takes a lot more than a week or two to satisfy the craving this country makes.
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I’m loving these old vids each Friday night. 🍺👍🇦🇺
This was the first 4wd trip I watched and got me into 4WDing. What a video John, legend.
Awesome stuff guys! I remember watching this on DVD when it first got released, and the great thing about this video (and others) is watching the adventures back again after a few years, and it just as exciting. Well done Roothy and the team!
To this day still the only 4wd show worth watching.
Thank you Roothy for sharing another great story.
Thank you Roothy from Canary Island
@JOHNROOTHROOTHY
2 жыл бұрын
how cool is that? Never been there - sounds awesome!
Awesome.
Great vid, enjoyed it very much.
Amazing content roothy.
Great video!!! What an adventure!!!
Great trip 👍👍
Thanks for sharing Roothy hadn’t seen this one before
brilliant ! loved it
Miss your videos , wish you still did them . Nothing comes close to your videos mate 🤙🏾
@JOHNROOTHROOTHY
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks mate, I miss them too - but there's a school of bearded blokes and ladies out there doing what I used to do, just with air con and product placement! Getting to be you can't go bush without running into film crews!
Thats me favourite one so far rooth. Gday from Townsville
this is soo epic !! what an awesome adventure!!
Great trip, John makes me wish I was back home. I saw a bungarra,like the big lizard in the beginning, here in the Philippines apparently they are native here too, I have also seen bush pheasants, crows and a close relly of willy wagtails, there is a species of mellalueca growing in Luzon and Rainbow Gums in Mindanao. Aus and the Philippines must have been connected at some time.
Its weird to see this format without someone yelling "holy heck" every four seconds.
I’ve got this on DVD
All we need was Stoive on the side
its cape york, and there is cool aboriginal land and not gunshot creek number plus old telegraph x^2 . me happy
@geepuller1
2 жыл бұрын
What is gunshot? I've never seen that one. 🤣
👍
What winch do you guys use
Seams like a new video but it's old
When you guys cleared that big tree and then went down to inspect the river crossing, you walked straight into the water. How did you guys know there weren't crocs around? I'm assuming it would be potentially croc territory? This is from someone down south. Loved the video, by the way. Thanks.
Rod, why do they call you 'Rocket'.
What does the temperature drop too at night
@JOHNROOTHROOTHY
2 жыл бұрын
It's not too bad - maybe 8 to 10 degrees this autumn time of year.
What year was this one originally filmed?
@JOHNROOTHROOTHY
2 жыл бұрын
2013 I think - my memory gets a tad overworked with the trips - we had so many!
@briandantana8470
2 жыл бұрын
@@JOHNROOTHROOTHY awesome thanks Roothy! Was a great trip, as a Triton lover I really enjoy seeing the old trip with Rocket in his!! You don't see enough Tritons in 4WD shows these days, especially considering how many Australians own one now!
@Cdog79
Жыл бұрын
@@briandantana8470100%. Triton owner here too. Great rigs.
Love watching your adventurers Roothy. Only one thing I disagree on....the earth is flat😏
A very old VLOG, money for nothing.