CREB Track - MAYTOWN - Old Coach Rd | Aussie History & HEAVY 4x4 |  

I get a bit chatty when I've had a few beers and I'm watching something I'm passionate about. Like that bloke who won't shut up at the camp fire...I don't think many people realise that the vast majority of the rainforest-covered mountain range up that way consists of a relatively thin layer of organic matter covering granite boulders exactly like those you can see exposed at Kalkajaka (Black Mountain). We had a bore pump at a place I lived at the foot of the ranges that produced crystal clear mountain water. The mountains act as a natural filter.

Great video mate, arguably your best yet

Loved it! Awesome as always Keithy 👍

Some trivia: In 1982 I went up the CREB in the back of a short-wheel-base Landcruiser with a rag top. We got to (If I recall) what was called the jump-up or Big Red but we'd had some rain. We got the little fourby a third the way up but had to turn around and go back the inland road (the Bloomfield track didn't really exist back then). The thing was, we were going to the Gold Hill track at pole number 87. That was only about 2-kilometres from where we had to turn around. The people who lived there decided to walk the rest of the way so I walked with them while a couple of people stayed with the driver while they took the 300-odd kilometre detour. A few months later I walked the entire CREB track. Well, I hitched from Cairns to Daintree, and walked from Daintree to Bloomfield via the CREB in roughly three days with camps along the way. They were great times. I was only 18 at the time, so everything was an adventure, and fun.

Your drone footage is awesome, mate. You bring a different view to what a lot of the other channels that have covered this track.

2:30 Before I keep watching, I just wanted to say that Cairns/Cooktown/Wujal Wujal/Bloomfield/Rossville/Helenvale was my old stomping ground (and will be again next year). This is why I watch video like yours with relish. It keeps me focussed on what I need to do to escape BrisVegas again. I've been down here 8 years too long. I know the roads you'll be running in this video well, so it will take me back again. I used to work for the express bus service between Cooktown and cairns and other remote centres. We'd have a regular run from Cairns to Mossman, and on up the Bloomfield track to Cooktown in 22 seat RWD coaster buses. In the Wet we'd go inland, but the dry was easy for the buses, even before all the concreting and bitumen happened. Anyway, I'm rambling. Back to watching and I'll try to shut up. nothing worse than people talking in the middle of a video...

Looks like a awesome trip, your looking good mate

wicked ! congrats on your trip! good on you ! 🏞️📹🛻🤙😎

Mate that was awesome! Just checked with the sis, they didn’t do creb or old coach. Absolutely mega footage and video! Was gonna ask about the health on the other vid. Good to hear all going well!

Jealous mate! hope you have an awesome trip, will be back in a year to join you for the next one🤙

20:20 (I can't shut up) I first went to the Palmer River Roadhouse in 1982 when the Mulligan was a goat track. At that time the owner was building the slate stone walls of his new building. Yep, he carted all that rock in and built the entire thing himself by hand (along with some help of course).

I love the Russel Coight-esque intro, mate. Sorry, I have a bad habit of commenting as I watch, so sorry in advance.

1:20 22:20, 22 October and I'm on the Northside of BrisVegas with a freshly opened stubby of Coopers Sparkling Ale. Let's do this!

Lovely Vid, hope you are on the mend

great video keep it up

I have never been into Maytown or been on the old Coach Road. However, everything the locals have told me, and everything I've seen on RU-vid would arguably make it one of the hardest tracks to navigate safely. It's interesting that some of the old Coach Road looks like the old highway to Cooktown back in the early 80s.

2:46 Okay. Last comment. I lived at the South end of that beach for some months in 1982. It was a haven for 'outsiders' who didn't want to live conventionally. There were a dozen or so 'permanent' residents living in handmade cabins or tents along the South end of Wangetti Beach.

Kija (Roaring Meg falls) is a Women's place. There are many documented cases of men slipping and falling to their deaths at Kija. I have lived up there and I won't go to Kija. Not only is it disrespectful for men to walk there, it is dangerous for them. Also, throughout the kuku Yalanji lands up there, Traditional spirituality and lore is still very strong. In fact, kuku Yalanji language (and kuku nyungkal) is one of only 20 of the probable 5000 dialects spoken by Traditional owners that is still used as a first language. In the community of Wujal Wujal, Yalanji is spoken more than Australian English and is taught to the kids at school.

More useless trivia. I lived up that way in the early 80s, and in the early to mid-2010s. Both times the Lion's Den was my 'local'. However, 30 years is a long time, and the interior of the Den has changed a LOT. In the 80s, they still ran a trading post for the locals and tin miners, selling everything from carbide stones for your acetylene lamps to tinned butter and tinned flour. Even in 1982, I felt I'd entered a time warp into the 1800s. It was an amazing place, and somewhere, under layers of other names and notes on the walls is my name.

Where ya from buddy?

How much fuel does the range rover use on a trip