Hells Gates

 24/6/2021 Adels Grove to Hells Gates

Packed up slowly today and made our way to Hells Gates road house.

We took the Savanah Way Alternate Route. The road was great, a few gates to open and cattle to get past. We had set the Google maps and it has been very accurate so far however.......................

We did a lovely river crossing and the map told us we had gone the wrong way, so we did a u turn and headed down a not so accessible track but forever hopefull we kept going. After knocking down vegetation for about 3kms we decided that maybe Google had got it wrong so headed back to the river crossing and it was still lovely the second time round. We were back on track. We stopped in a Doomadgee for supplies (make sure you go into town and go to the super market not the road house). The super market has just about got everything accept fresh bread but you can get a frozen loaf. We are now travelling on highway 1 the national Hwy. Easy run into Hells Gate Road House. The kids immediately found some calves and were invited to give them their bottles. Unfortunately the weld from big Shane didn't last but there is fix it shop at Hells Gates so we will keep you posted on that. We had dinner at the road house a beautiful curry (yum yum) wrote our message on the travelers wall and then we were treated to some fire twirling by one of the workers here Tim. Hells Gate is great place to stop we highly recommend it, it is also the last place for fuel in QLD before you cross the border into NT which is where we are off to tomorrow.