The Northern Tip of Australia
Living in Luxury in our Pajero for 8 weeks
After two and half years of driving our Pajero in the extreme heat and over the sand dunes of Qatar we come home to Melbourne.
Thanks to Mitsubishi Burwood we bought ourselves the 2009 Pajero. Not bad for a couple who drove their first car, a Torana, for 20 years!!
The plan was to see what our new Pajero could do with a planned intrepid trip to the northern most point of Australia at Cape York. Probably the first 2009 Pajero to travel to the tip of Australia.
More about the trip in moment but first we have a name for our Pajero, with the number plate (WQE ---) Why Question Excellence, says it all. It did everything and more on the Old Telegraph Track, including many river crossings.
The Pajero did not miss a beat and was our home for 8 weeks and 10,800 km with ample room for our camping gear, food, cooking gear and all our clothes for the 8 weeks plus room for our son for part of the trip and then a good friend for the run back down the east coast.
So the trip went something like this.
Driving from Melbourne to Cairns via Bourke, Longreach and Winton. We then put the car on the Sea Swift ship “Trinity Bay” to Bamaga at the tip of Cape York.
For the record we drove to the tip, then down the development road to the Jardine River ferry and then onto the Old Telegraph Track to Elliot Falls then zigg zagged our way down the Cape via, Captain Billy Landing on the East coast, Weipa on the West coast, Chilli Beach on the East and then on the development road to Laura and the split rock aboriginal art. Then through Lakefield National Park to Cook Town and back to Cairns via Bloomfield and the 4WD track to the north of Cape Tribulation and back to sealed roads.
After the Far North adventure we headed back down the east coast stopping off at Mission Beach, Airlie Beach, Agnes Waters/ Seventeen Seventy, Mooloolaba, Broadbeach, Lennox Head, Coffs Harbour, Sydney to Melbourne with a slight detour via Wakool in NSW.
The pictures say it all.
Our Pajero was delivered to us in February and it now has over 18,000km and going very well and is very comfortable both on the sealed roads and the rough tracks of outback Australia.
David and Jan Schultz
17th July 2009
