WEST COAST CAPE YORK - Roothy

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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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