It's exciting to be exploring places for the first time. We've never travelled past Mossman before so we're really looking forward to the next few months' travel up to the Cape and across the Savannah Way to the Gulf and Darwin.
Cooktown is fascinating. History (gold, timber, Cook's Endeavour), the town, the temperature... we planned two or three nights here but stayed four.
It's a town of about 2000 people, and the town pretty much shuts down for 3 months of the year for the wet season when very few tourists come through.
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| Cooktown is always windy apparently! It certainly was the whole time for us! |
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| A great water park on the waterfront at Cooktown. |
A visit to Cooktown is not complete without a visit to the Lion's Den Hotel, about 20 km out of town on the road to Bloomfield and Woojil Woojil, still closed after December's Cyclone Jasper.
The water got above the gutters and the publican and staff were evacuated by chopper off the roof.
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Cooktown Botanical Gardens was a standout. Really well tended and maintained.
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| Black Mounted. Haunted. Stories, strange forces... yeah, right. |
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| Cooktown from the lookout |
A pretty lazy four days to be honest... we must be getting the hang of this.
On to Laura tomorrow. Not a big day but a few hours up the road.
Lazy days are a luxury, enjoy them!
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