Karumba to Weipa

The west coast of Cape York is a never ending strip of deserted white sandy beach broken by the entry of meandering estaurine Rivers (no doubt crocodile infested) such as the Staaten, Jardine and Archer to name a few. Between Karumba there are three small settlements on the coast, of which Aurakun (pictured with air strip) is probably the best known. After about two and a half hours Weipa comes into site. A mining town where the red bauxite (raw material for aluminium) is obvious - mining is by scraping away the surface and directly exposing the bauxite. Also just south of Weipa we start to see the stationary weather trough ahead and cloud starts loweing and looking more gloomy. Oh well, half an hour on the ground, a meeting with the fuel truck and into the air again-last leg to Bamaga Injinoo.