vrilya point and weipa

heres a little vid we made from when we were coming down the gulf side of the cape

VERNON ISLAND

we drove a little out of darwin and fished the vernon islands pretty epic place with heaps of turtles some big crocs and pretty dam good fishing. check out rile’s 10kg longtail below taken on the red headed halco crazy deep.

Crocodilians & Barramundis

Heard a few tales from a grey nomad back in the gulf that shady camp on the mary river was a good place to spot a croc or two & catch the elusive barra. thanks for the tip silverback we ended up knobbin to bitches wit one conny

DARWIN

weve just hit darwin and depending on the weather might stay here for a few days but the golden arches certaintly got hammered on the way into town. check the highway speeds up here not that we can get the rig over 90km/h anyway.

NT

been doing a crap load of driving the last few days but its been pretty good just dodging the cattle and the big reds on the road and eating a good amount of bull dust which pours into the car from every hole. and we both shot this boar fair up the date and dropped him today

THE SAVANNAH KING

just passed through Normanton a few days ago and this is one of the first things you see when you drive into town. An 8+ metre world record croc. its an accurate sculpture of the beast that was shot only 53 years ago.

YEAH SO...

Just thought we would give you an update with a few things that have gone wrong with the rig so far,

CAR first the the brakes fell off no biggy really, we just took the bolts out of the seat belts and bolted them back on. then the muffler fell off, a farmer was nice enough to lend us some wire from his fence so we fixed that. next we noticed there was a hole in the petrol tank haven't quite fixed that one yet (any advice would be great), the bonnet is held closed with a tie down.

TRAILER rolled a few tyres off the rims, bent the stub axels pretty bad easy fixed roll the axel over and hope they bend back straight. bent and snapped a heap of bolts.

So nothing major yet, should be right to get us to Darwin

HOGS

just spent 2 days driving from weipa to normanton which is down in the gulf. we took a few backroads hoping to see some pigs and werent disappointed. we spotted a mob of 20 and got pretty pumped up but they were off before we were ready. after seeing them we were a little more ready and we drove into the next watering hole, were mitch stoned his first pig with the 6.5. from about 100metres. up early and on the road again we picked up a local blackfella who had run out of petty in the middle of nowhere and he was a champ although he tricked us into taking him 200kms to the next town he had a good eye and spotted bams pig under a tree which he nailed with the 44 magnum from about 100 metres

weipa

just spent 3 days in windy weipa been blowing its ass off the whole time and doesnt look like stopping. we heard that pera head was where we want to fish so we planned for a rough wet ride down there as its 45km down the coast with access by boat only. it was definitely worth the mission down there though. we thought we would try mono instead of wire and although we had more hook ups it isnt worth it because we lost a lot of tackle $$$. but even after we put wire on we were still loosing gear to some oversized mackrel. i had one to the boat and saw a big flash before he took off for the bottom and went chewed through my 60lb wire. then we got bams fish in the boat and my fish straight after. then 5 min later the dragged went off and another fish we couldnt stop. we chased him in the boat and he eventually snapped us off again. good fishing here but the wind is a bit rubbish
bams mackie
mitch's mackie

vrilya point

spent 3 nights out at vrilya point which is about 100kms south of the cape on the gulf side was pretty amazing had a camp right on the water at the river mouth, spent the mornings casting slugs at mac tuna out the front all ranging about 2-4kgs but super fun on the light gear and we spent the arvos fishing the river which was the best river i have fished i think. the river was full of golden trevaly, goldspot trevally which were taking our lures every second cast and we even caught a rare diamond trevally. also had a little reef shark smash up my favourite deep diver when we were getting it out of his gob. seen a couple more crocs in the river and caught our first barra in a crab trap but we swam him off because he was only little.
mac tuna were sick on light gear
some of the golden trevally that were on offer in the river
diamond trevally

The Northernmost Point Of Australia

Took the day of fishing and headed up to the Northernmost point of Australia today, hung 10 of the tip. checked out a few beaches on the east coast. Dropped Micka at the airport, if you would call it that.

Were packing up camp and heading down the gulf side of the cape in the morning to Vrylia Point, will be there for a few days. Wont have reception for a week or more, so will get some new blogs up as soon as we can.


Looking SW from the tip


Looking Towards the tip


Riley, Mitch, Micka


The Crew


Getting as far north as possible

FISHING SEISIA CAPE YORK

Picked up Micka a few days ago, had some epic days fishing out of seisia the most northern town in Aus. check out the vid including Mitchs Stoinker GT.

MASSIVE GT

caught this 25kg GT today on a halco red head, ill put a video of the fight and release tomorrow filmed from my gopro

old telegraph track

we concurred the old telegraph track with the boat and car still in 1 piece, everyone we met said there was no way the rig would make it and even questioned us as drivers which was probably a fair assumption. but we fucking smashed it. i highly recommend anyone coming to the cape to do the whole tele track its one of the highlights of the cape.

surf movie

playing around with my gopro

couple of waves

fun day a few months ago

bathurst bay

had a sick time at bathurst bay everyone laughed at us when we told them we were going to tow a boat there and told us that we wouldnt even get there the track is terrible but we murdered it and did it in 3 hours without getting bogged. good few days fishing and eating massive crabs and sushi.




Some mud on the way in


Camp


Mitch, Riley, Jabba, Curls


Spanish Mackerel


Longtail Tuna

cairns to lakefield national park

finally got out of cairns and into some dirt, had our first beach drive and got bogged, but jabba snatched us out no worries, also seen our first croc sitting on the bank about 12 footer scary bastards, we cast a lure at him and he launched into the water and we shit oursleves and floored the tiny tinny out of there.




24-27th. june.2010

go karts

go karting in cairns



22.june.2010