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Published: December 28th 2011
So on my way up to Cooktown, which was about a 4 hour drive through the bush I saw my first Kangaroo. I also saw a few Wallabies, but they were road kill…but I did see a few grazing right next to the road, and I mean right next to the road. I nearly hit one before I saw him. They also let their cattle run free up here so there was cattle right next to the road, and I was one that had been hit. Even with the danger of hitting one of the two, I still cruised along at about 75. There was this hill that was called black mountain, it was covered with black boulders some the size of a house. I don’t know why but it looked vary strange. There are stories of people going up and falling into the rocks and disappearing.
I stayed the night in Cooktown and the next day went on an aboriginal tour. There was only a family of 4from Aus and me, this far north there are almost no tourist, which is nice. The tour guide was very good, his grandfather was born and raised in the “Bush” until he
was 13, so he was about as close to the real thing as you can get. He showed us some rock art, told us some stories, but also the history of his people and how they think. Over all it was a very good tour. At the end he found this wicked looking lizard, which he told us not to let it bite us because it was poisons, but he had just chased it up a little tree and grabbed it by the tail.
That afternoon I headed back south and stopped at another rock art site. This was an hour drive out of the way, and then a 30 min walk up the side of a mountain. The point is, I was out in the middle of nowhere by myself in the “outback” so if anything happened I would be in trouble. Australia has 6 of the top 10 most poisons snakes, along with a host of other dangerous animals and plants. Anywho, the paintings were neat to see, but they are anywhere from 100-1000 years old and are a bit faded, they will tell you they could be 40,000 years old, but more than likely
they are a few hundred years at best. This rock site was discovered in the 1960’s
I spent the night in Port Douglas again. The next day I slept in and then headed down to the beach. Most of the beaches are abandon, this time of year because of the jellyfish that will sting. The Government has put up nets on some of the beaches to protect against them.
Next post. Flying to Sydney and beyond.
Sorry the post are taking so long to put up. Marry late Christmas!
The end.
Travis.
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Daddy
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Your sunglasses look like what I wore in the 60's. What is a wallabee? The lizard is my favorite. The kangaroo was cool. Did the boomarang come back? The rock art looked like rock art. What were the two holes in the rock.