{"id":12583,"date":"2025-12-18T04:55:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T17:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/?p=12583"},"modified":"2025-12-18T13:51:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T02:51:19","slug":"cape-york-day-4-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/?p=12583","title":{"rendered":"Cape York – Day 4 – Revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Late lift off on the last day due to rain at Weipa. We were going to land at AWC\u2019s Piccaninny Plains Sanctuary to visit, but the late departure ruled that out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We fly out of a wet Weipa over Coen, Yarraden and Piccaninny Plains all in the Cook Shire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Then Lakefield (a really large area) and the Cape York Developmental Road until we reach Mount Carbine close to AWC’S Brooklyn Sanctuary. We land to refuel at Pennyweight Outstation, located on Brooklyn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After refueling we headed back over Mareeba, where Bungie the Pilot lives and we fly over his helipad and then back to Port Douglas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Late lift off on the last day due to rain at Weipa. We were going to land at AWC\u2019s Piccaninny Plains Sanctuary to visit, but the late departure ruled that out. We fly out of a wet Weipa over Coen, Yarraden and Piccaninny Plains all in the Cook Shire. Then Lakefield (a really large area) … Continue reading Cape York – Day 4 – Revisited<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[149,4,85,248,118,120,164,84,82,55,42,44,52,75,223,34,26,62,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-4x4","category-australia","category-brooklyn","category-brooklyn-sanctaury","category-cairns","category-cairns-2","category-camera","category-cape-york","category-clouds","category-forest","category-landscape","category-landscape-landscape","category-mountains","category-piccaninny-plains","category-piccaninny-plains-awc","category-plant","category-qld","category-textures","category-trees"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Cape-York-HeliTrip-Day-4-0331-DxO_DeepPRIME-3-1.jpg?fit=1800%2C1145&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42vG0-3gX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12583"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12651,"href":"https:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12583\/revisions\/12651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}