A quick visit to the bay and the Captain Cook statue and then a visit to the musuem which didn't take long because it was shut. Outside we met a couple from Sydney, Terry 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 turn...

Wed 11th July Cairns Look around the main town and waterfront area where it meets the river. There is a large marine industry area, and room for a lot more on cleared, filled land. Check out the mud-flats, which are pretty ugly at low tide, and the man-made lagoon (the engineering was done by the company Dianne used to work for). Out to Crystal ...

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 land which really don't have anything in it at all. The town itself is pretty out there, it's o...

There were only about 8 people on the safari so it was quite nice. I hung out with a guy from Israel and got to learn about his views on the conflict there. Can't say I agreed with all of his views but it was a good learning experience. We stopped at a river which was "crocodile infested" so naturally I couldn't bear the thought of not swimming ...