As you could see from our first post, Kowanyama does not have a whole lot of facilities. So Pats and I decided to do a trip to Cairns to stock up on food and a few things that we forgot to get before making the move. Now this is not a trip to take lightly, especially over a weekend. Cairns is a 7 hour drive, while this is not exactly a massive drive, what makes it that much harder is that over 5 hours of this drive is on dirt roads that have quite a few hazards including kangaroos, dust, wild pigs, wallabies, brolgas and huge pot holes that have the ability to completely swallow the poor little Jimny! However the biggest hazard on this trip are the cows, cows, cows and more cow. You see Kowanyama is surrounded by cattle stations and these cows can appear out of what seems like no where or they could be safely standing by the side of the road and then decide to completely freak out and stupidly run across the right in front of your car. Thankfully we made it to Cairns by 10pm Friday night without incident. One of our colleagues was not so lucky a week later, his car was a total write off after hitting a cow, thankfully he was completely uninjured. A very lucky man.
Saturday in Cairns started with breakfast on the esplanade then it was all about the shopping - but not the fun kind! However it was all necessary and life back in Kowie is a lot better for making the trip. We left Cairns mid morning Sunday with the poor little Jimny packed to the hilt.
We arrived safely back in Kowie early Sunday evening, completely exhausted but very happy we had made the trip. But in no hurry to do it again anytime soon!!
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