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Cooktown Slideshow
Cooktown
Travel Blogs from Cooktown, Australia
Bush walks
Its a pity that I did not have transport, but it gave me an opportunity to go on some of the trails through the rainforest. One of them was to a cove behind the town. The path descended to the beach. It seemed that the path had not been used for a ...
Australia Day
Today there are lots of celebrations all over Australia to commemorate the arrival of the white man. I decided to go north to Cooktown. There are two ways to get here. The coast route which is very beautiful but only for 4x4 vehicles. At this time of ...
Über blöde Kühe
... und wir dachten gestern dies sei die Schlüsselstelle! Dann geht es über gute Schotter- und Asphaltstrassen weiter nach Cooktown. Unterwegs essen wir etwas kleines in einem originellen Roadhouse mit einem skurrilen Museum. Und im Black Mountain National ...
The most boring drive ever!
Today we headed back towards civilisation, well, Cooktown anyway. Joel decided that it would be a great idea to take a 'shortcut' through Lakefield National Park. The first 50km was pretty good, nice graded roads, lovely picnic spot for lunch, but ...
Historical Sunday
... about on the beach, both daring to at least have a quick dip in the water to freshen up before we headed into town. Cooktown dates back to 10th June 1770 when James Cook ran his ship Endeavour into the Great Barrier Reef. There is understandably a ...
Cooktown und erste Wasseraktivitäten
Das Schaukeln des Schiffes bescherte uns einen erholsamen und tiefen Schlaf, so dass wir topfit in Cooktown aufgewacht sind. Nach dem Morgenessen (inkl. Nespresso Kaffee; what else?) hatten wir gute zwei Stunden Zeit, das kleine Städtchen zu erkunden. ...
Father's Day in Cooktown
Sunday the 3rd September – Fathers Day Cooktown was where Captain James Cook parked himself and the Endeavour after he pranged it into some of the Great Barrier Reef. The longest reef system in the world, in totally unchartered waters and he ...
Making our way to Cooktown
... sped up our dinner and clean-up operation. We then met up with a very bluff ozzie guy who could have been called Mr Australia, he was so typically Ozzie. He was driving a ute (or as we’d say it yoot) had only three teeth and was ...
Lions Den - how's is this place?
... seems to work. With freshly boiled Rd Claw in the fridge we said our good-byes and left the Lake bound for Lions Den near Cooktown. We arrived at the Lions Den (which is a famous pub which camping ground attached at the rear) after a drive that went from ...
Aborigine Insight
... set about carefully making her way south as it was coming up for dusk ... and here dusk means Kangaroos. On our journey into Cooktown we had spotted 8 kangaroos, but unfortunately they were all dead at the side of the road, so this journey we hoped to ...
Roar!
We reached Cooktown today, and despite the overcast conditions, spent a bit of time wandering round the Botanic Gardens and foreshore areas. After lunch at the Bowls Club, we headed off down the road towards The Lion's Den, our destination for the night. ...
Cooktown
... for a weekend. The views on the drive up there and back were gorgeous. The landscape was very hilly, with lovely views. At Cooktown the scenery still impressed. I took a walk up a very steep track to the Cooktowns Lighthouse and Lookout. You could see for ...
Cooktown
... down enough). Most of the backpackers in the hostel are working at nearby Banana farms -pretty hard work I believe. Cooktown has an interesting history with Capt Cook arriving in 1770 and then gold being discovered in 1874 which is when ...
HISTORIC COOKTOWN
... and must be visited either at sunrise or sunset. Needless to say, we chose the sunset visit. Spectacular view over Cooktown, the Endeavour River system and the Coral Sea. A beer at the local pub, fish and chippies down on the wharf and ...
4 dagen.......
... højt oppe. Fugle i alle farver og størrelser og med de skønneste lyde. Mandag lejede vi en autocamper og kørte mod Cooktown, igennem øde øde landskaber, ingen byer, ingen mennesker, bare træer, tørt græs, tynde køer og kænguruer. Har ikke ...
Travelling the Savannah Way to Cooktown
... James Cook Museum, originally a convent school built in 1889 and now home to one of the best regional museums in Australia. The River of Life Walkway was amazing with plaques set in the concrete along the footpath telling the stories ...
Up towards the Cape York peninsular
The day after saying goodbye to Herdy's parents in Cairns, we headed on north up the coast to Cooktown. Quite an interesting place and only accessible via an inland road through some pretty impressive bush - my first real taste of really big tracts of ...
Couple of days back in the tent.
... it to save his boat from sinking. Great piece of Australian history and a good history lesson for the kids. After leaving Cooktown we called in to Archer Point which was another beautiful spot to look out over the Coral Sea and surrounding rain ...
Cooktown (31.10.-1.11.2010)
Cooktown is the northernmost town on the east coast of Australia, located at the mouth of the Endeavour River on Cape York Peninsula in Far North Queensland. In 1770, Captain James Cook and his ship the "Endeavour" ran afoul of the Great Barrier ...
Bananas
... to A Star Trek convention, not because I was a weirdo trekkie but beacuse I had rare Star Wars cards to trade. Obviously. Cooktown reminded me of this convention simply because there were so many knobs up here it was unture. Population 1800 60% of which ...
Kikano Goes Walkabout...
... Kikano, I would like to go Walkabout… The only road from Port Douglas to Cooktown pierced through Queensland’s Outback, lounging the edge of Australia’s Great Dividing Range. The tropical forests quickly faded, to be replaced by ...
Von Cape Tribulation nach Cooktown
... für mein Falcon. So musste ich hald rund herum auf der geteerten und mehr oder weniger langweiligen Strasse. Cooktown ist ganz nett ein kleines verschlafenes Städtchen oder eher Dorf mit einer Hauptstrasse einem Supermarkt und ca. 4 Bars. ...
a long car trip
OMG it was a 3houra dive i flet sike on the first 20 minites. it was so long i thourt we where lost. yey we go to cooktown found by james cook a verry nice place to stary in. dad look all around cooktown for food but we just had snacks for dinner well ...
Our mate Wilfred
Spent the full day in and around Cooktown today, starting out with a visit to the Botanical Gardens which also doubles as the official tourist information centre. Checked on the road conditions for our journey north into Lakefield National Park and ...
