Friggin' Fuel

[batesy]

Glad I don't own a diesel....

Diesel in Weipa today - $1.73

Maybe everyone will have to start taking motorbikes to the Cape!!

[Scorcher]

Glad I don't own a diesel....

Diesel in Weipa today - $1.73

Maybe everyone will have to start taking motorbikes to the Cape!!

Hey Batesy

I keep re-assuring myself that "It's all relative" !!

I'm starting to question "relative - to WHAT"? Mortgage Interest Rates?

I remember doing our first trip up in 1987. Sydney to the Tip & back. About $600 in fuel.

I can't find my records from our last trip in 2006, but about $2,500 seems to ring a bell. I'll confirm that.

Deisel in my area of Sydney today is $159.9.

I wonder what prices will be like at The Archer River & Bramwell Station Station this year?? Might break the $2 barrier.

Scorcher

[campdog]

2006 was about 2 grand I think. Sure making it hard for the average camper. Last year 3 weeks on the cape fishing at Virilya cost about $700 each for 3 of us. Maybe thats the go.Just go fishing with the mates.

[Nedly]

We kept records, though I haven't sat down an collated as yet.
I expect we would have spent around the $2000 mark last year, from Brisbane.
Bramwell Junction will be the most expensive, I'm anticipating $2.00/ltr for diesel this year.

Hate to think what this year will cost.
Better not to think about it, just go.

[Scorcher]

Maybe a few of the early travellers can gives us a blow by blow of the fuel prices at each of the fuel stops when they return??

Not that it will make any difference, we're still going.

Might just help with the decision of where to fill the spare tank & boat fuel at. Every $ helps these days !

Scorcher

[Stacky]

As of today at Lockhart River......Unleaded is $2.10 per litre
and as of this Monday..........Deisel will be $2.15 p/l

[highlift80]

Unfortunately a sign of the times Stacky, It will probably still keep going up, heard on the news today that crude oil is at an all time high $124.00 a barrell, wish my wages went up like the fuel prices.

[Scorcher]

As of today at Lockhart River......Unleaded is $2.10 per litre
and as of this Monday..........Deisel will be $2.15 p/l

Stacky,

What was the price before it went up ??

[Stacky]

I hadn't purchased fuel for a couple of months but I think Deisel was around $1.83 p/l and unleaded was around $1.76 p/l back then (guessing).
Ido my best to ignore the cost when i fuel up. But i certainly felt the pinch this time around.
Luckily the old Troopy only comes out on weekends to the boatramp and back or maybe a odd bush trip. Everything else is walking distance eg. beach, shop, work, canteen. I tend to use my small tinny most weekends and not the bigger boat.
At these prices i am still not keen on paddling a canoe up here.

[ant]

C'mon Stacky- live a little. Small water craft are a real buzz in the cape, particularly when you push into a billabong where the water is that deep and dark that you can barely see 30cm into the water!!!

[campdog]

C'mon Stacky- live a little. Small water craft are a real buzz in the cape, particularly when you push into a billabong where the water is that deep and dark that you can barely see 30cm into the water!!!
Nothing like 2 inches of freeboard while trying to keep it steady.

[campdog]

He Stacky, youve got it good mate, costs me about $ 3000 in fuel just to get where you are,think of all the cash your saving on beer.

[xina]

Luuuuuuurve your sense of humour Ant,
cheers,
xina.

[ant]

xina- what sense of humour?
In reality, I actually do fish canoes and other small water craft up in the Cape. Actually planning a few trips up there this year with my 3 metre PolyCraft. There is an article in this years Cape Yorker on the first trip which was out of Laura.

I will be fishing it later in the year in the billabongs off the Wenlock and also out of Weipa and Pennefather- Can't Wait.

I guess I like to 'push' things a little and don't mind taking the odd 'calculated' risk. May have to find a new editor for next years Cape Yorker eh!

[xina]

Hi Ant,
You'll probably be safe enough if it's not the mating season.
Do you go fishing up there during the Wet? Sea is like glass then. We made it to Portland Roads from Temple Bay in 45 minutes one day, and we stopped at Mosquito point to pick some-one up on the way. It was usually about a 3 hour trip.
Cheers,
xina.

[Stacky]

We had a girl paddling in a sea kayak around Australia pass by here last year......well she didn't get quite this far. Somewhere south of 'Old Site' a 4M Salty sized her up and took a bite into the back of her Kayak. She quickly paddled to the beach and the Croc stalked her for 2 days up and down the beach. In the end she used her SAT phone to have someone come and collect her. It turned out to be our local resident Dave who lives on Resto Island that went to the rescue. We saw photo's of the Croc and the results of her kayak to prove it.
She decided to continue her tip from West OZ and head south. She has a website about her adventures apparently.

[campdog]

We had a girl paddling in a sea kayak around Australia pass by here last year......well she didn't get quite this far. Somewhere south of 'Old Site' a 4M Salty sized her up and took a bite into the back of her Kayak. She quickly paddled to the beach and the Croc stalked her for 2 days up and down the beach. In the end she used her SAT phone to have someone come and collect her. It turned out to be our local resident Dave who lives on Resto Island that went to the rescue. We saw photo's of the Croc and the results of her kayak to prove it.
She decided to continue her tip from West OZ and head south. She has a website about her adventures apparently.
I followed a website last year with a fellow from the Gold coast I think who travelled from cairns to the tip in a Kyak and he had the same misfortune but managed to complete the journey. I followed it on the net each day at work until my internet access was removed.I cant remember his name though.Ant might know.

[campdog]

xina- what sense of humour?
In reality, I actually do fish canoes and other small water craft up in the Cape. Actually planning a few trips up there this year with my 3 metre PolyCraft. There is an article in this years Cape Yorker on the first trip which was out of Laura.

I will be fishing it later in the year in the billabongs off the Wenlock and also out of Weipa and Pennefather- Can't Wait.

I guess I like to 'push' things a little and don't mind taking the odd 'calculated' risk. May have to find a new editor for next years Cape Yorker eh!
Im thinking of getting one and getting rid of my fibreglass conoes.My back is stuffed and I cant sit for too long in a canoe.Would be great on the rapids when chasing bass.

[plucker]

I have found a couple of places in the Cape that I would have loved to have my canoe there like the Wenlock. However I did enjoy the option of the motor on the roof topper when things got scary, negating the need to ever take the canoe.