Developmental Road North, 22-23 July

Lakefield National Park to Musgrave From Lakefield we traveled west to Musgrave, where we turned north for a long haul up the Peninsula Developmental Road.	Civilization ahead	Patsy and Peter at Lotus Bird Lodge lagoon
Magpie Geese	Musgrave Station The first overland track to Cape York connected a string of telegraph stations established in the 1880's.	The old telegraph station The Old Telegraph Line provided Australia's first reliable communication with its Torres Straits Islands.
Musgrave store and cafe	4WD country	The far side of the parking lot
Waiting for burgers	Friendly locals	Musgrave to Coen
Downtown Coen, "Queen of the North"	Store, petrol, post office, camping	Humdrum campsite
Peter and Patsy making do	Coen's watering hole and social center	The [S]Exchange Hotel
Coen's public toilet	Coen to Lockhart junction Our objective is a side-trip to Iron Range National Park on the Coral Sea.	Our turnoff onto sometimes hazardous Lockhart Road After crossing two rivers and a mountain pass, it slides into the showery coastal rainforest.
An Aboriginal perspective	Lockhart junction to Iron Range	Lunch, Wenlock River, Lockhart Road
Wenlock River	Crossing the Wenlock	Campsite, Lockhart Road Just short of Iron Range Park, we enjoyed a lovely creekside campsite, well off the road.
Campers, Lockhart Road	Little Friarbird