162 Km
It’s a fair drive to Elim Beach, took us approx 1 hr. As we didn’t have mobile reception we couldn’t check tide times and happened to arrive on high tide.
Not much beach to drive on then, so we parked the cars and walked down the beach towards the coloured sands and first gorge.
The first thing you notice on the beach is a very rusty Toyota that fell victim to being caught out in a high tide several years ago.
Note, one can also go to Sleaford Bay but we didn’t have enough time or willingness to drop tyre pressure to go through the sea sand.
There is a 10 AUD per car fee to enter the beach and bay.
We headed back to town to resupply for next 2 weeks, unfortunately we couldn’t resupply our cask wine supply as the local laws mean none is for sale before 4pm.
We got to Cooktown in time for lunch and were hoping for something other than wraps…our general go to lunch menu item. However every place we went to kitchen was closed, if we wanted something it was sandwich and coffee.
We sat in a café to complete our online census, a little early as there will be no signal for a while.