Doom City! (19th June)

The day started with a casual ride around Lawn Hill NP, we really need to get over leaving our gear in places and just take the risk as we're starting to realise that we're missing out on so much! Riding through an area and not exploring it on foot is such a waste!

This was a very adventurous day it turned out as we somehow managed to get off the main track north through Lawn Hill to Doomadgee and ended up riding around in some cattle station.

At one point we came to a creek crossing that was off the main track, but we thought that we should stick to what looked like the main road, this is where it started to go wrong. Sure enough after riding through rabbit-holed tracks and deep mud for a couple of hours we decided that we'd gone the wrong way and should head back to the creek crossing.

The crossing was deepish, but easy enough and in 6kms I was on the main road and waiting for Sam and Scott to arrive. I waited for a few minutes and realised they were not coming. I returned to see Sam picking up Scott's bike and Scott limping around in pain. Not good. Scott had a medium speed crash in a mud hole and had become trapped under the bike until Sam arrived on the scene. He's hurt his leg a little but we're pretty sure it's not broken at this point.

We arrived in Doomdgee(Doom City we were warned) late, what a trashy place. In Sam's words it's hard to believe there are third wold conditions in the same country where we live so well. The local Aborgines live in a ghetto-like place here, they seem happy enough, but it just doesn't seem right in Australia.

The caravan park had been closed down and become a compound for the Army and Q-Build so we had to look outside of town for a campsite.

Where we went first was a track that was lined with drunked Aborigines, so we thougth it best to move on. A few kilometres out of town we found a suitable campsite above the river.