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We spent around 5 days hanging out at Smiths Point on the Cobourg Peninsula (also called Garig Gunak Barlu National Park), which I think is the second most-furthest north point you can get to on mainland Australia (just under 11 degrees south of the equator - in comparison, the tip of Cape York is about 50kms further north).
You need to get a permit to say up here (you need to cross Arnhem Land) and I think in recent years they’ve closed sections of it off, so now there’s only the one area you can visit. On top of this, in 2005 the whole area got devastated by a cyclone - at the moment, the bush looks pretty trashed, with heaps of trees down. Still, it’s a nice area - not spectacular, but worth a visit - and would be magic if you had a boat to explore the other bays and the rest of the coastline (with some serious crocodile action up here, the canoe doesn’t cut it).

The fishing is pretty good too - true to form however, we didn’t do so well; Jane bagged a brace of squid one night, and I got a flathead and a diamond trevally another day. But we lost a lot of gear on snags and rocks - and no-one was going to risk their life retrieving it
Oh, and we met up again with Stewie and Coral - they got up there the day before we left.