Iron Range National Park
Entering park
Mount Tozer Lookout
Mount Tozer
A violent beginning
A stunted community
Botanist par excellence
The triple junction
Turn left for campgrounds and eventually the charming village of Portland Roads (pop. 18) in the lee of Cape Weymouth on the Coral Sea. Turn right for the Ranger Station and eventually the Aboriginal community of Lockhart River on protected Lloyd Bay.
Self-registration station
Iron Range map
Kuuku Ya'u country
Rainforest Campground
Visitor at our campsite
Or were we visitors at her campsite?
At ease in Zion
Brush Turkey in camp
Rainforest chile
Editing photos
Moonlit rainforest
Portland Roads
In World War II this quiet cove was the hub of the U.S. Army's defense of Australia from Japanese invasion.
Continuing toward the point
Jetty ruins from World War II
Coral Sea
Anchorage
Bloody times
Peaceful Dove
Hibiscus
Yellow-bellied Sunbird
"The Portland Roads Hilton"
With rain picking up, we were lucky to rent this fabled establishment for a night of tropical luxury.
Portland House
Portland House and its imaginative owner Fiona Stewart figure in many ornithological memories of Cape York.
Entrance