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Lushy

25-06-2008, 05:14 PM

Well only 38 sleeps to go for Lindsay and Lush to leave:)
New depature date looks like being 2 August 08 from melbourne so for those planning their trip about then hope to catch up with you all.
dark Blue Surf and large Rhino Rack on the roof!!!!

Nedly

26-06-2008, 02:10 PM

We'll be leaving Brissy the day before, only 36 sleeps for us, wohoo.
Look for an ex-Telstra truck with a Cape Yorker windscreen sticker.
We'll be on ch. 13, same as last year.

Hope to see you up there.

ddr

26-06-2008, 06:40 PM

Were still planning on the 8th, but weve also added Undarra in there before Weipa rarther than the way home now.

Look out for 2 GU4 Patrols.

emu

26-06-2008, 07:03 PM

Hate too rub it in but i'm currently at waddy beach at fraser is, week 2 of a 3mth trip........will be up the cape in late july in a prado which i havn't managed to get bogged as yet:)
Cheers
Ken

Emujim

27-06-2008, 10:21 PM

Hi EMU,
How is Fraser Is i have heard that the east coast is washed away and it is realy hard to get up and down the beach.

the tractor

28-06-2008, 03:09 PM

emu

28-06-2008, 03:56 PM

I drove up too sandy cape lighthouse today, it's my first time to fraser so i can't compare but didn't see much noticeable erosion, great divin along the beach and only passed 2 cars and got temp bogged once (made use of exhaust jack and proved to missus that it was money well spent:confused: ) when xing over detour track at sth ngkala rocks.
Tomorrow we leave fraser and start heading towards carnavon gorge.
Cheers
Ken

Lushy

29-06-2008, 06:34 AM

34 Sleeps lol.
I will post on here when we depart and try to update our whereabouts at Net Cafes as we go.
We will be running on channel 15, but will keep a ear on 13 as well.

extremelimitsoffroad

29-06-2008, 06:47 AM

Hi all

Had a bit of a windfall

work want me to drop in to townsville for a few days.

I now leave on 28 Jul to townsville and then head to Wonga Beach on the 1 Aug 08

Wait for the rest of the crew to join us then head to the cape via the bloomfield track on the 3rd.

Weipa on the 6th and off to Seisia on the 10th back to Weipa on the 17th all being good

See you about

Gold Prado with extreme limits offroad windscreen splash

Emujim

29-06-2008, 11:09 AM

i was on fraser last weekend and got from eurong all the way to sandy cape, the beach isnt as good as normal but is quite drivable.

(i can see fraser from my backyard)

i'm heading to the cape in september so i'm keen to hear how you guys travel

Hi Tractor,
My 4wd club was planning a trip to Fraser in october but they are thinking about canceling it as they have heard that it's no good. They said you only have a very small time frame to get up and down the beach. Any accurate info would be appreciated.

Lushy

29-06-2008, 03:06 PM

Exstreme we will cross tracks I reckon about Wiepa - after we go thru old and new Laura then to Wiepa

Nedly

30-06-2008, 03:01 PM

i'm heading to the cape in september so i'm keen to hear how you guys travel

I'm sure there will be plenty of reports posted once everyone gets back, I know I'll have something to post. Share the knowledge.
When in Sept are you heading up?

Nedly

30-06-2008, 03:09 PM

I now leave on 28 Jul to townsville and then head to Wonga Beach on the 1 Aug 08

Wait for the rest of the crew to join us then head to the cape via the bloomfield track on the 3rd.

Weipa on the 6th and off to Seisia on the 10th back to Weipa on the 17th all being good

See you about

Gold Prado with extreme limits offroad windscreen splash

Looks like Weipa is turning out to be an unofficial meeting place, we'll be in town at the same time, in fact we'll be there on the 5th.
We'll be in Seisia on the 10th.

Drinks with extremelimitsoffroad, Lushy and Nedly at Weipa.

White ex-Telstra Patrol with CapeYorker windscreen splash.

Lushy

01-07-2008, 09:52 AM

you will be a bit ahad of us but if you are camping at the camp grounds in wiepa we will fin you.
We have magnet signs on the doors of the Surf - Lindsay and Lushy and the Surf - Melbourne to the tip on them, picked them up from the post office today from Vista print for less then 30 bucks.

ddr

01-07-2008, 12:53 PM

By my calculations I think we will arrive at Weipa on the 15th

So if Anyone sees 2 GU4 Patrols pulling Caravans (One a Trakmaster) give us a hoy.

Lushy

02-07-2008, 08:38 AM

And us to Got the Magnetic door signs yester look good to!
Lindsay and Lushy and the Surf.
Melbourne to the Tip say Goodaye
Chn 15
Thats us lol.

Nedly

05-07-2008, 08:47 PM

Truck's serviced.
The camping gear is sorted.
Have organised the fishing gear.
All I need to do now is pack the truck.

I'm ready to go NOW.

Might pack the truck tomorrow :)
27 sleeps to go.

extremelimitsoffroad

06-07-2008, 07:22 AM

Hi all only 21 sleeps to go

I will be stopping in Townsville unti 1 Aug 08 and then upto Wonga beach to wait for the rest of our party

Then up to cooktown and arrive weipa 6 aug

leave for seisia on the 10th

We are going to be at loyalty beach until the 16th

Hope to see you all

ant

06-07-2008, 07:51 AM

You guys are getting me keen to go back up again too. Might see if I can duck up to Weipa while you are there to join you for a few beers!!

Nedly

07-07-2008, 02:59 PM

You guys are getting me keen to go back up again too. Might see if I can duck up to Weipa while you are there to join you for a few beers!!

I'll make sure I have a couple extra coldies, just in case :)
Hope you decide to come up, be good to have a chat.

Lushy

15-07-2008, 06:07 AM

18 Days to go for departure, Lindsay is testy, reckons we need to spend more time packing lol, shove the lot in where it fits and 8 weeks corrigations/bumps will sort out where it fits is my thoughts lol

Nedly

15-07-2008, 06:27 AM

Tuff 79

16-07-2008, 05:23 AM

Hey fellas, We head up in 9 days for 4 weeks, piging and fishing ,,,,,,,,, count down is on lol... there is 4 trucks if see us give us a wave...........
http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q101/tuff75/0022.jpg

ant

16-07-2008, 09:46 AM

Hey Tuff 79- nice cruiser. Good luck with the pigs. I hear there has been a little rain up in some parts of the Cape lately so that may effect where the pigs will be.

dave

16-07-2008, 03:31 PM

oh yeah that is a nice truck , sounds like a hole lota fun have great trip tuff 79 and anyone ellse heading up take care,

cheers dave

Lushy

18-07-2008, 06:50 AM

OOOOOOOHHHHHH Goody gum drops, it now looks like we will leave cold Melbourne on the 1st August for the Cape, so all my guesses are now realality!
So should hit Cairns on about the 4th. After that who cares!:p

ant

18-07-2008, 07:57 AM

Nice work Lushy. At that time, I will be in Karumba out catching threadfin salmon!

Lushy

17-09-2008, 04:21 PM

Hi all got to the tip and back safely!
1 blown motor
1 clutch and fly wheel
1 exhaust bellows
2 batteries
If this is the norm I would hate to see a bad trip lol, highlight seeing mate drown the Surf at Nolans.
Low light seeing mate depressed on the arrival home!

Stacky

17-09-2008, 04:41 PM

Well done Lushy,
ya made it. Can't wait to see the photo's. I'm glad i wasn't going halves in costs with you on your trip though!!!

ddr

17-09-2008, 09:25 PM

We got home today too.

Only Casualty was 1 tyre on the bloomfield Tk & 2 shocks on Dads c'van on the main road to Weipa.

Nolans was the "tricky" crossing, actually it was the only crossing we needed any prior prep before doing. Ill upload some pics tomorrow.
Gunshot
http://ddr.bigblog.com.au/data/6/30580/image/Gunshot2891620080830180530.JPG
Logs, its not as big as it looks
http://ddr.bigblog.com.au/data/6/30580/image/Bridge22891920080830180530.JPG
Nolans
http://ddr.bigblog.com.au/data/6/30580/image/Nolans2892120080830180530.JPG

geoffjy

17-09-2008, 09:30 PM

Nice pics ddr, sounde like you had a great time.

Lushy

18-09-2008, 04:54 AM

I found Gunshot a bit of a dissapointment with the new northern approach but you can still see where the mad buggers use to cross.
Whilst we were there the dozer was cleaning up many of the bad entrances as well.
Owing to the delays (2 weeks) the watr was very low but Nolans tricked us into taking the easy entrance and bogging down in the soft bottom on the southern end which needed a whinch out.
The ECU got drowned and I spent two hours blowing out the water with a bed inflator which worked and the computor is still functioning well.
I will do piccies as soon as I can work out how to do them:eek:

ddr

18-09-2008, 12:49 PM

So out of the 2 Nolans entrances did you take? We took the one on the left or straight through heading north.

It sure was soft.
This is Me standing in the deepest part of Nolans.
http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb165/trackie389/Cape/Nolans.jpg

Im 6'5" & it was up to my nuts, so deep, but what was surprising was the sand at the bottom was really soft.

The prep we did for nolans was lower tyre pressures (Down to 32) & put on a blind, then it was easy in the water & foot down fairly hard.

The most disapointing thing about our trip was the things we missed because of the wind & poor road reports.
The Wind stopped us from camping at Cpt Billys & Chilli Beach (Therefor missing Frenchmans) so that was sad, & also we missed the top part of Lakefield due to a wrong road report (We came in the bottom). We also missed doing Battle Camp which we would have been ok with, but again road reports that we took we should have found out for ourselves.

Few more pics
http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb165/trackie389/Cape/Dulhunty.jpg
http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb165/trackie389/Cape/Elliot.jpg
http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb165/trackie389/Cape/FruitBat.jpg

ddr

18-09-2008, 12:50 PM

http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb165/trackie389/Cape/Mistake.jpg

http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb165/trackie389/Cape/Rig.jpg
http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb165/trackie389/Cape/Punsand.jpg
http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb165/trackie389/Cape/Tip.jpg

ddr

18-09-2008, 12:51 PM

& this was prolly my fav spot on the trip, Kalpowar
Pitty there were no fish in the river.
http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb165/trackie389/Cape/Kalpowar.jpg
http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb165/trackie389/Cape/Kalpowar2.jpg
http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb165/trackie389/Cape/Kalpowar3.jpg
But thats probably because of this
http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb165/trackie389/Cape/Croc.jpg
& I was fishing the other side of where he was earlier that morning.

loxsmith

18-09-2008, 03:59 PM

Owing to the delays (2 weeks) the watr was very low but Nolans tricked us into taking the easy entrance and bogging down in the soft bottom on the southern end which needed a whinch out.
The ECU got drowned and I spent two hours blowing out the water with a bed inflator which worked and the computor is still functioning well.
I will do piccies as soon as I can work out how to do them:eek:

Hey Lushy, all you and Lindsay needed was a tow from a Postie bike rider to get you guys out of the shit, hope the rest off the trip after we left you was uneventful. I have some pics of the drowned Surf if you need em!
Oh, and a classic pic of the Postie Bike wheelstanding out of Gunshot.

The seized first bike arrived back in Brisvegas this morning, what a sad sight it is.

PS we gave the Troopy back to it's rightful owners. hehe!

Lushy

19-09-2008, 02:04 AM

loxsmith

20-09-2008, 07:49 PM

Hi mate - yes we did get back home without anymore major issues just a exhaust fix. Even the putor is still keeping the car sweet.
From what I remember you towed a Nissan out of nolans?;) would love a pic of that.
The drowning was a classic - the easy entry was our fate, glad it was not me driving his car, he still is pissed about it - the car is fully stripped in his back yard (not Pretty) LOL.
You guys rock by the way - a very good thing you did for us.
So you stuffed another posty shit mate you guys have arses of steel.
For some fate you guys where our guardian angels - not pretty ones but you were there at our need.

Yep, got the Postie Bike towing the Nissan pic as well, there is some crackers amongst them. How could we even consider leaving you guys stranded after donating the vital engine oil to help the Mail get through! 150km round trip was fun anyway.

And driving that Troopy was an experience in itself, after fitting new tie rod ends to replace the fencing wire holding the old ones together. Wheel alignment by eye worked a treat. Don't need any fancy cars to do the job.

Thanks go to Mark from Top End Motors at Seisia for his help and many cold beers, he's a top bloke.

The big esky full of cold beer we purchased helped heaps when we found you had left Nolans under your own steam only hours earlier. Shit happens!

Might do it all again next year but in my own old Troopy.

I bet nowhere near the amount of people will come and have a chat with us. Motorbikes attract young and old alike. Even 80 year old Hilary in a tour bus at the Croc Tent told me she rode a bike across the Nullabor in her early days, thought I had picked up a real bikey chick there. She was a good sport!

We met some fantastic people

Glen

ant

21-09-2008, 05:27 PM

Yep, got the Postie Bike towing the Nissan pic as well, there is some crackers amongst them. How could we even consider leaving you guys stranded after donating the vital engine oil to help the Mail get through! 150km round trip was fun anyway.

And driving that Troopy was an experience in itself, after fitting new tie rod ends to replace the fencing wire holding the old ones together. Wheel alignment by eye worked a treat. Don't need any fancy cars to do the job.

Thanks go to Mark from Top End Motors at Seisia for his help and many cold beers, he's a top bloke.

The big esky full of cold beer we purchased helped heaps when we found you had left Nolans under your own steam only hours earlier. Shit happens!

Might do it all again next year but in my own old Troopy.

I bet nowhere near the amount of people will come and have a chat with us. Motorbikes attract young and old alike. Even 80 year old Hilary in a tour bus at the Croc Tent told me she rode a bike across the Nullabor in her early days, thought I had picked up a real bikey chick there. She was a good sport!

We met some fantastic people

Glen

Hi Glen,
Sounds like you have enough info and pics there for a story for next years magazine. Give me a yell if you are interested.

extremelimitsoffroad

21-09-2008, 06:26 PM

Hi all

Lushy sounds eventful

Bit like our run

Well we had a ball and would like to do it all again

The first 75 or so Ks into lakefeild was a test and had a few failures

Overcome and continued on

Full trip report Pics and Vids on our web site

http://www.extremelimitsoffroad.com.au/webcontent25.htm

Have many more pics as I sure does everyone else

Would like to thanks

Cooktown, Caravan Park, RACQ Depot and otheRs

loxsmith

25-09-2008, 01:05 PM

Hi Glen,
Sounds like you have enough info and pics there for a story for next years magazine. Give me a yell if you are interested.

PM Sent

Glen

Lushy

07-10-2008, 07:13 AM

Did our thing at the MotoGP - well done to Stoner leading the race from start to finish. I reckon this thread is finished and sets us free for others to use the forum, happy to give advice (good and bad lol):p