Cockatoo Creek crossing

Cape York at last!

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September 23rd 2006
When last I wrote we were in Cooktown and left there onThursday 14th Sept and headed back to Cairns and the beautiful and green Crystal Cascades Caravan Park. As I mentioned in the last blog we had booked on a tour to take us up to Cape York and we left the van and car at Crystal Cascades for the duration. Were picked up at 7.20 am Sunday 17th Sept and joined another 15 people for the journey. ... read more

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Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more