Cooktown

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Cooktown were Captain Cook hit the reef and had to come ashore and to make repairs to Endevour.

A small town but with lots of history, apart from Captain Cook, with gold mining and a strong Chinese influence

The musem is a must see, allow at least 3 hrs, includes narritive of Captain Cook's log while he was here, displayed on boards in chronical order day by day.Also the full history of Cooktown, a very historical town.

Dotted around the town are various monuments and statues to commemerate it's history

There is a hill lookout where Captain Cook looked out over the rivers and reef to determine his passage out , today it's a well defined tourist attraction and gives a good 360 deg view of the surrounds, and the view he would have see in 1970 apart from the moored boats in the river.

Took the opportunity to take some sunset pictures

We took a small detour to a famous pub , The Lions Den, in the middle of nowhere, nearest town Cooktown 35ks away down a dirt track part of the Bloomfield track 4x4 only, the pub is famous for it's autographed ,it's a tradition to write on the wall

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Photos

sunset over the Endeavour River
Beautifull evening looking out over the river

Lighthouse at Cooktown
No longer in use but saved as a monument to past days

THE LIONS DEN
Entrence to the lions den pub

Monument to Captain Cook
So many

Comments

[Marian O'Keeffe]

Hello Bill and Jackie , sounds very interesting, hope you left your autograph in the pub, Keep up the blogging it brings a ray of sunshine to us poor workers, enjoy Marian