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Cooktown Slideshow
Cooktown
Travel Blogs from Cooktown, Australia
A new adventure
... decision. Make the most out of what we have. Crap sailing weather...so dont sail. Alternative...4x4 the Bloomfield Track up to Cooktown. The boat went into storage at the local camp ground ond off we set. All the brochures suggest that the ...
Capt Cook crashed the boat here!
... put them with the Cairns entry coming up next. Well I'm sitting around the pool at Cairns filling in our Cooktown entry (sorry its late) and its about 30' and Julie and the Kids are swimming, some get the hard jobs. Here we go, ...
#6 gateway to 'the tip'
... grassy riverbank to camp on and we enjoyed a big fat steak dinner after some frolicking in the river. Arrived in Cooktown early the following day. This is a very picturesque town, with wide streets and lots of historical buildings. We weren't ...
This Fortnight in Far North Queensland - Welcome
... Nick Baudin were saving their relatives' names for the west and south coasts of our great land. Cooktown is famous for being the first European settlement in Australia (a month and a half in 1770, when Cook was repairing the reef-stricken ship), the ...
same caravan park - different site
... afternoon. We were planning to go out exploring in the afternoon but instead decided to extend how long we are staying in cooktown but unfortunately the site we were on was already booked for another motorhome on Tuesday so we moved to another which in ...
from bush to sea
We went for a drive up to Endeavour falls (North of Cooktown) today. They were uite pretty but there had been a croc sighting end of last month around the area so weren't allowed to swim there which was disappointing as it probably would of made it a ...
day 2
day 2 we went down to the marcket and we went and the fish and chip shop and and we talket to rad and helen and we bought and rock it is lucky and we went for a ...