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16/08/2007: "ESCAPE TO THE CAPE ..... Cape York in a Falcon"

Christine Danaher snapped this shot of the Ford crossing the Wenlock River in Cape York, Queensland, Australia.

Today there is a proper bridge there - people have said. This was 1985 when Christine and I drove north with no particular plan where we were going. It had begun as a visit to Cooktown, then became a drive through Lakefield (which was a real horror road for the low clearance of the Ford - indeed it was a journey once commenced there was no turning back).

The sump hit quite a few rocks and began leaking - it was plugged with blu-tak poster putty on many occasions.

We proceeded north to a point just beyond the Alice River before turning around. By this time I'd learned how to negotiate the sandy road - keep the auto in 2nd gear with foot flat to the boards. We still got bogged a couple of times, usually when we'd caught up to a slower moving vehicle and had to stop.

We exposed some 16mm film of our journey (as a tribute to Keith F Adams' Northern Safari - the classic Australian documentary feature film of an true epic journey in an even older car from Perth Western Australia to The Gulf of Carpentaria in Queensland via Ayres Rock and home along the WA coast).

My footage has remained in archives ever since. Maybe it will become a production eventually - maybe. It is recorded on Kodachrome - which does not change color as do "professional" grade films.