Bye Bye Mission Beach, Hello Cooktown....

G'day Mates,

I've got a very bad reception but still want to try to give you a new story, I'll do my best but maybe it will be a short one, here it comes;


After giving everyone a hug and a kiss, we leave the caravan park towards the Tablelands. Because we've been here about 4 years ago and did all the site seeing you can do on the Tablelands, we now just pass trough. If you are interested in the tablelands you could go to my other weblog: tamfredinkangarooland.blogspot.com and watch the 14-10-2009 story.

When we were just a few k's from Mission Beach we already had a first stop haha; the hazard was a sugarcane-train;

Our first stop was a free camp at Mount Molloy, very nice camp, just a bit busy. Nearly everyone with grey hear going to or coming from Cooktown, stay there. At the same time we left Mission Beach, our neighbours also left together with friends and guess were they were going?? Haha, we were together at the Mount Molloy camp. 

Just want to show you a bit of the road;

Cooktown is the most northern town from Queensland where you can come with a normal car. You can go much more further to the cape but then you have to have a 4WD because all the roads are off-road/dirtroads. 

Cooktown has a lot of history because of the landing of captain Cook on 17 June in 1770.

Maybe for some people it is a pity and for others a relieve but we are not museum people so I can't give you information about the museum from Cooktown which, I have heard, is worth while the visit but sorry, not for us. We rather walk and see some of the flora and fauna but you most probably already have noticed that.

And so we did a walk, through the Botanical Gardens to Finch Bay,

 from there to Cherry Tree Bay, 

over grassy hill to the Lighthouse, 

all the way down again and then back to the caravan park, I think we have walked about 8 kilometres and the track, especially from Cherry Tree Bay to the lighthouse was very hard I can say!! But the view was worth the trip and of course we had our lunch (incl. beer and wine) with us so AGAIN we had the most gorgeous picnic spot chosen out, looking right over Cooktown!

To be continued!

(We've been to Optus because of the bad reception, they say the Tower can't handle all the tourists haha)

See you soon (I hope)