Cooktown, Australia Travel Blogs

Uptown to Cooktown - better known as Closedtown
Nov 22, 2008 (38 photos)

... and open landscape. This is exactly why we are doing this part of the trip. This is where we get to see the real Australia and not just the coastal route. When we arrived at Bob's Lookout it gave fantastic views over the whole area, with nothing but land ...

Crumbs From Your Table
Nov 24, 2004 (3 photos)

Tuesday 23rd November 2004 Road trip time! - hire a car, along with Dirk & Marco, to go to Cape Tribulation and the Atherton Tablelands. Relatively cheap car - AU$60 a day, though with thumping AU$1500 excess on insurance. I drive first day - havent ...

Diving the Reef
Apr 14, 2006 (12 photos)

Taka dive boat is pretty big (30 passengers about 10 crew) and is also quite new. Got on board to be shown our cabin which was twin bunk beds (pleasantly surprised as thought we were sharing) down in the basement. Next layer up was huge galley for food ...

The events of the past few days have ...
Sep 13, 2001

The events of the past few days have shocked everyone and all of a sudden, travelling and enjoying yourself seems to take a back seat! We were watching the tragedy unfold live on CNN and as everyone will agree, words do not exsist to describe the scene! ...

Queensland - east coast australia arriving ...
Dec 2, 2001 (5 photos)

... to the sand dunes to face the consequences early the next morning! But here on the East Coast of Australia "Backpacking" means something completely different - Living in luxury backpacker accomodation with swimming pools, ensuite bathrooms and fully ...

The great barrier reef i have created this ...
Oct 6, 2001 (1 photos)

The Great Barrier Reef, I have created this entry simply to show some photo's from the recent trip to Hastings Reef and Michilmus Cay on the Great Barrier Reef last Sunday. I have some cracking shots sadly i have run out of allowed disk space on this ...

Small update to give you all the ...
Oct 22, 2001 (1 photos)

Small update to give you all the oppertunity to laugh in my general direction! We had planned to have a quite weekend as I had inherited a sore throat from other members of the house, and as luck would have it, it was a quiet one up to the point of the ...

Cooktown, What the!!!!
Jul 20, 2009 (4 photos)

... because we have had such a good trip.  Nevertheless, we are in Cooktown to see all the history of Captain Cook's first landing in Australia.  Yep, one more to tick off the 'to do' list. I have been amazed at the amount of traffic we have seen up ...

Neue 4WD-Abenteuer
May 26, 2006 (1 photos)

... 100 Meter flussaufwaerts spendete uns eine schoene Abkuehlung, bevor wir die lange und auesserst holprige Strecke nach Cooktown unter die Raeder nahmen. Gewaltige Steigungen und aetzende Schlagloecher wurden von weiteren kleineren und groesseren Creek- ...

Cooktown via the Bloomfield Track
Sep 13, 2009 (25 photos)

On the way to Cooktown we went on the Bloomfield Track,which was so much fun! We stayed in Cooktown for two nights.While we were there,we went to the Museum and learnt about Captain James Cook,We went fishing off the wharf and Marc caught a Little Queenie( ...

Amazing pub with signatures all over the walls
Jul 4, 2009 (4 photos)

Cooktown and a little bit norther
Jul 24, 2008

We left the house and headed north toward Cooktown and the area north of the town in Hope Vale area. We spend the night in faraway little beach and in the morning went to see some colored sand.

Rainforests of Cape Tribulation
Apr 6, 2007 (6 photos)

After 5 days of diving followed by a heavy 'end of trip' party session, we headed north to the tropical region of Cape Tribulation in search of much needed peace and relaxation. We stayed in the midst of the Daintree rainforest taking nature walks with ...

Wednesday, Day 1
Sep 20, 2007 (8 photos)

... with his arm. Lucky he wasn't though, because even just a few centimetres smaller would have been a disaster! The drive to Cooktown was long. There were bushfires halfway there which we drove through, but I slept through it. What a time for a ...

A bit of human history for a change
Sep 4, 2009 (6 photos)

... between Mount Cook and the mouth of the Endeavour river and it is this position which makes it one of Australia's most historically significant most historically significant townships.  When in 1770 the then Lieutenant James Cook, in command of the ...

Corner of the bush
Jun 29, 2009

... ego.   But considering how dusty the car was, it could have happened to anyone!    On getting into Cooktown there was a frenzy of shopping from the supermarket, fuel stops and finally, the absolute must, a stop at the local bakery ...

The mad dash
Jul 12, 2009 (3 photos)

Packed down by 8:30am or 8:38am by the Kents clock, or 8:35am by the Marshalls clock. The Marshalls won the pack up contest that we weren't really having but were kind of.    The aim for today is to get down to Laura by tonight.   ...

Bliss enjoyed
Jun 28, 2009

Enjoyed Elim Beach.   Josh woke me up to let me know he was going out to the guys who were out fishing.   Only problem was that  between the guys and himself was a lot of mud.  He started crying about 10m off shore and howled by ...

camping trip 2
Sep 2, 2008

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4 day dive trip from Cairns
Nov 27, 2006 (17 photos)

... towels after each dive.   We cruised all the way back down to Cairns over 4 days, stopping at loads of dive sites and seeing millions of fish and coral. It was beautiful, and a great way to finish off our diving in Australia.    

Laura Aboriginal Dance Festival, QLD, Australia
Jun 19, 2009 (9 photos)

... new friend, Harold, to attend the Laura Aboriginal Dance Festival. Here, many different tribes from all over Australia displayed their traditional dance routines, along with some contemporary routines. The dancing was accompanied by the sombre sounds of ...

Rain forest et great barrier reef...
Feb 14, 2007 (18 photos)

Après re une nuit en bus, nous voici arrivées à Cairns, bien au nord... l'humidité est étouffante, tout comme la chaleur! on reprend un bus pour 2h de ballades sur la route côtière, dans la rain forest... direction cap tribulation. Il faut savoir qu'au ...

Up on the Farm
Dec 28, 2004 (6 photos)

... a few days after Xmas. The drive up was amazing and apparently is ranked behind only the Great Ocean Road as one of Australia's great drives with beaches, cliffs and rainforest everywhere you turn. The farm was pretty cool too with goats, chooks and a ...

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Sep 5, 2008

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Mt Carbine
Oct 21, 2007

... and Barbara. Terry was originally from London and Barbs from Queensland. We talked to them long enough to get a suntan. We left Cooktown and somewhere off the main road we turned along a 12k unsealed road  until we came to the most beautiful , ...

Cooktown and the Coloured Sands
Aug 11, 2009 (4 photos)

... to have a little stroll on the beach though. It turned out to be quite a long drive (it was an hour from the beach back to Cooktown) so when we got back to Cooktown we had lunch (fish and chips by the water!). We also went up the Grassy Hill (not so grassy ...

Boxing with the fish
Dec 27, 2005 (2 photos)

I was going off to the outer barrier reef today on my own so I could get some diving done, while mum stayed back in Cairns. I got picked up at 7 (bluegh too early) in a big coach which drove us all the way up the coast to Port Douglas (which took about an ...

North to the Cape
Sep 1, 2008 (7 photos)

... the next morn!   And we moved our canvas house a way back from the water's edge... just in case!   Cooktown was a delight.  The last town before the 750 km dirt track through rainforest wilderness to the tip of Cape York derives ...

Gepaeck verloren / Lost luggage
Sep 23, 2007 (4 photos)

... 184: km99'483 Nach 4 Tagen hatte ich beschlossen, den nur fuer 4 Radantrieb empfohlene Bloomfield Track nach Cooktown zu versuchen. Die Flussdurchquerungen und zum Teil happigen Gefaelle und Steigungen hatte ich gemeistert. Doch die kleine ...

Bowen to Cooktown with family in between
Sep 13, 2009 (43 photos)

... Endeavour” and named the river after his ship. We drove up to the light house and Grassy Hill to see magnificent views of Cooktown, the Endeavour River and the Coral Sea. The locals are so friendly and have all the time in the world to talk to you. ...