Top and back to Weipa

The connection has been so bad and slow that so no updates. After Elim we drove very fast for us, to the top, two overnights at roadhouses on the way and stayed for 6 days in Seisia. What a fabulous place but the road is as bad as you have heard, one rocks and rolls all the way and it is around 900k! Parts are surprisingly good but mostly it is the corrugations and the very fast drivers that are so bad.
Seisa is around 40k from the tip and has a nice campground on the beach with a jetty behind which is the centre of the community. Lots of fishing as the small fish congregate around and under the jetty and there as so many they look like large dark patches in the water. The young aboriginal kids, 5-15, with perhaps one adult around but unsupervised, were the best fisherman, some had long bamboo hand spears and would spear fish to be used as bait for bigger fish. The kids were all so polite and friendly, I was very impressed with them.
We could see a crocodile on the beach on the island opposite, a few hundred metres away but in the afternoon around 30 kids would start running across the jetty and jumping in (3-4metres to water). They would all do it together and them sometimes the visiting white kids and dads jumped too. But I didn't! The Queensland kids went on hols during our stay.
As soon as the croc left the beach opposite, instantly all the kids got out of the water.
We spent one day going to Thursday Island and did a bus tour around the island. It is interesting and nice out there. The islanders are a mix of many different races. Do you know there islands nearby where one can stay. It would be a nice holiday destination.
We spent another fabulous day going to the tip, hence the plank, and that is a really terrific place. It is one of those places in the world that have a special vibration (or something) it is so very lovely. One drives though open eucalypt forest and rainforest to get there and with so many small islands around it is very picturesque. We had the best day, not much wind and sunny (I am quite a tan now) just perfect, the water was so beautiful.
On our way back now, in Weipa, at another campground on the banks of Mission River, a very large shallow inlet here. I do like flushing toilets and power, have decided that I am a soft offroader and I am so over those roads and the trade winds that we will not go to a lot of the places we could on the way back. The distances are so vast and the red dust is so intrusive that the backtop is looking very attractive.