Bramwell Station

We had an overnight stop at Silver Plains Station, on aboriginal land, run and owned by locals. It sounded ideal and was in a great location, so we took the 55k track to the gate.....and then the 20k driveway to the  homestead.......then the 10k very rough track to the campsites by the river. Only to find it overgrown and full of litter. For $30.00 a night with no facilities, we expected the litter to be picked up. Move on.
We left at first light and drove through some fantastic scenery, and plenty of corrugations, through Coen, where we got supplies and fuel, and even though it was only 10.30 we had to try out the pub!
Our next stop was Bramwell Station at the southern end of the Old Telegraph Track.
This is a great spot.

The campground at Bramwell is run by Lorella and Dick, a young(ish) couple who were travelling the Cape 4 years ago, and ended up there. They have a great bush bar and Lorella cooks a mean steak.
We stopped there again heading south and got real messy. More on that later.
The station itself is almost 1000sqkm and runs just over 1000 head of cattle......none of which ever get sold. A 1000sqkm hobby farm!! Everthing on it is a pet, inclding a pig and a brolga. The owner, Vince has the roads contract and owns and leases the Bramwell Junction roadhouse. We decided to check out the Telegraph Track without the trailer and the first crossing, Palm Creek is by far the worst. We met Nev and Leanne here and have been travelling with them since then. Nev drives a very well equipped 80 series that he bought new 16 years ago, and tows a Kimberley Kamper.

 This is the Palm Creek crossing which Nev drove, with his trailer without incident. We bypassed this crossing, on orders from 'The Handbrake' but continued on to do the rest of the southern end of the Tele Track.

These pics are of the infamous Gunshot Creek crossing. Now relatively tame. We then returnrd to Bramwell for the night and headed off next morning to Fruit Bat Falls.