{"id":4519,"date":"2021-03-01T10:20:09","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T00:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cuppa500.com\/Blog\/?p=4519"},"modified":"2022-02-05T16:25:07","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T06:25:07","slug":"cape-york-last-years-plan-renewed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cuppa500.com\/Blog\/cape-york-last-years-plan-renewed\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape York – last years plan renewed."},"content":{"rendered":"\n


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Another wet season day
The grumbling grey skies
have unleashed their load
upon our corrugated iron roof
“Pardon? What?”
I shout loudly but impotently
I can\u2019t compete with nature\u2019s noise
on the roof.
Outside amidst the falling lake
which raises creeks
cuts roads
& greens country
lightning cracks viciously,
& suddenly!
“Come on you rain” we cry
Wet season excitement! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Written as the first heavy rain of the Wet Season fell at the farm<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2020 withered away. We experienced the country around us change from green to barren & desert-like, waiting for what seemed like forever for the late arrival of the wet season. It eventually arrived almost 3 months late. Not a full on tropical wet season but wet enough to once again see the country turn green, seemingly almost overnight. We did it easier than many, tucked away at the farm near Mareeba in FNQ. We were lucky, never under threat, no community transmission recorded in the the region. We were comfortable & secluded, \u2018treading water\u2019 whilst we had expected to be \u2018adventuring\u2019 in the Cape York Wilderness. We had a couple of delightful tastes of the Cape, the house-sit & postie gig in Portland Roads last February, & the visit to Balurga Station in July\/August, but we remain hungry for more. As far as it is possible to tell in these covid afflicted times, it is looking hopeful that the Cape will be open in 2021 once the wet season finishes & the flooded rivers once again become passable. And so we plan to do in 2021 what became impossible in 2020. The pandemic has not gone away, but it seems that the \u2018lucky country\u2019 has found a balance in managing it. No guarantees expected though. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pale-headed Rosella enjoying the new flush of green after the rains finally arrived.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Waterfall near Mareeba<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Grass trees in the forest close to the waterfall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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