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Cooktown Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Cooktown, Australia
Crumbs From Your Table
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Cooktown and Campfires Cool
This is a top pick! ... us Brits) and soon headed off to Cooktown. This is the place where Captian Cook landed when he found the East coast of Australia. We meandered around the park and all the famous landmarks before we finally got a mobile signal and ventured to Nico's place ...
Uptown to Cooktown - better known as Closedtown
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Diving the Reef
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Where Rainforest meets Reef
This is a top pick! ... ). Interestingly they were consultants in the Agriculture business who seemed to be able to work from a distance whilst travelling not only around Australia but also around the world. Well if you can’t beat them join them (but in an unpaid role). We ...
The events of the past few days have ...
This is a top pick! 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 ...
The great barrier reef i have created this ...
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Queensland - east coast australia arriving ...
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Small update to give you all the ...
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Neue 4WD-Abenteuer
... 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 ...
yay were here cooktown
arrived in cooktown today bloody long drive from home went to tourist info and got all the brochures for touring town set up camp then went and did the closest one here 'the cemetary' alright if your into that sort of thing but it killed a few hours ...
Cooktown via the Bloomfield Track
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 ...
Cooktown and a little bit norther
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 ...
Rainforests of Cape Tribulation
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
... 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
... 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 ...
FNQ- Far North Queensland
... down to make an extraordinary curtain. We also stopped by lake Tinaroo and then went to Millaa Millaa a waterfall on Australia’s only waterfall circuit. The rainforests around this lush area are endangered, Cyclone Larry in 2006 ruined the ...
Day 10 - Cooktown
... . Also plenty of history on the town. A little bit of trivia for cousin Sandra, Captain Cook sailed out of Plymoth enroute to Australia! When the Palmer River gold rush was on back in the 1800's most of the provisions came in via Cooktown and the place ...
Day 11 - Cooktown
... the encroachment of the chinese market gardens. Next we headed out to the Lions Den Hotel which is on the Bloomfield Track south of Cooktown - it was only about a 25km run. Had a lovely lunch and a wander down to the steam (or beach as they call it) next ...
Charming Cooktown
This is a top pick! ... the brim with adventure and scenic splendor we had crammed so much in, loving every moment. This is yet another stunning part of Australia. Determined not to spend too much time in the car after yesterday, we took a quick trip out to the picturesque ...
Corner of the bush
... 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 ...
The mad dash
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 ...
Cooktown
... (predominantly on dirt!). Headed on to Cooktown stopping off the check out the Black Mountains on our way. Had a wander around Cooktown, which was named after Captain Cook came here in 1770 after his ship "Endeavour" had hit a reef off Cape Tribulation ...
Bliss enjoyed
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 ...
4 day dive trip from Cairns
... 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
... their 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 ...
Rain forest et great barrier reef...
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 ...
Up on the Farm
... 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 ...