Mauwbray River

After spending time at the shopping plaza near the dentist, we set off to fnd somewhere to stay the night.

No vacancies in most of the caravan parks until Mauwbray River Caravan Park, just off the highway 10 klms short of Port Douglas.

Very busy Big Four caravan park and almost full. At $42 per night for a non-powered site and with over 200 spaces, this caravan park was pulling in a small fortune.

Our first sand fly bites were received here!!

By this stage Ray and Annette were on their way to Archer River. This seemed doable from Mauwbray River.

So a market stop for fresh fruit and vegetables at Mossman and then a ferry crossing.....

Into the Daintree National Park, up the Bloomfield Track and onto Archer Point....

To find that they had already left and were at Elim Beach, just north of Cooktown; "Not far", they said!

Eventually we arrived to find Ray had bogged his rig in the sand!

Our exclusive beachside campsite was beautiful!

Ray had brought his pressure pack of permethryn which he sprayed around both our campsites.

Here we received our second lot of sand fly bites!