Friday 29th July - Cooktown to Cairns via the Bloomfield Track After a night’s rest in Cooktown all our warning lights have recovered their equilibrium, though sadly the air conditioning is still not working. Never mind, only one day back to Cairns and it’s on a nice shady track where we won’t be able to go too fast! The first part of the “track”, to Helensvale, is actually a good tarmac road, so we arrived at our first stop, the Lion’s Den Hotel, about 9:15am. We thought that would be too early to be able to go in and have a drink, but it must be an “early opener”, ‘cos it was open and already serving customers! So in we went and had a lemon squash each. The road after Helensvale is almost immediately gravel,
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