55km. I was up at dawn getting water to filter out of Bridge Creek. Then it was get packed up after Breakfast, and say goodbye to some people I had camped with several times on the Telegraph track.
After 1 km it was the Jardine Bypass Road. This road was the most difficultly I had done, with sandy corrugations it was 11km of which I pushed the bike 6km. I made it to the Bamaga Road which was initially terrible with bad corrugations, but eventually, after some roadworks it turned into a good road. 24km to the Jardine Ferry. It was $10 to cross the Jardine, its $200+ for a 4wd and caravan. I also got internet for the first time in 6 days, including the news that people from Qld are not allowed into South Australia because of Covid. I decided the solution to that would have to wait. I then rode 9km into a strong headwind, until the road curved north. I originally aiming for a campsite called Jacky Jacky, but there were so many alternatives, I picked a roadside quarry 26km south of Bamaga. I lit a campfire to cook dinner because my wood stove is not working.
Firstly how long had the DC3 been there i guess it must have the missed the runway SHORT store during the War we had an airdrome about a mile and a half from where we lived one night I was woken buy the ROAR of engines to look out of my Bedroom window to see this very Burning plane heading to Land at this airdrome IT DID NOT MAKE IT CRASHED just short of the Runway being BOYS we had to go and see it I brought home an OX GENE bottle word was the Police looking for people who had taken things from the plane SO I dug a hole and Buried it in the garden Many Many Years later my Dad dug it up I think he took it to the Police Station A BIT OF HISTORY