It was on to Cooktown today.
A couple of people questioned why I would want to go there, but apart from the standard response of, "Why not?", a part of me just wanted to go as far north as Freda could take me so, here we are!
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| Why do they call it Black Mountain? |
When I got to town I went to the tourist info place which had free and super-fast wifi... I think I'll be making use of that tomorrow.
Most of the walking tracks that I wanted to do were closed so I did a couple of lamer ones until I saw a snake and I back-tracked like >insert topical political quote here< (I've been out of the loop as to what's happening in the world so you're gonna have to fill in the blanks there).
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| Moments before I saw the snake...and was attacked by a horde of Orcs... |
I took the track down to the bay, hoping again for turqoise water but I now concede that won't happen until I hit the west coast.
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| Finch Bay, Cooktown |
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| If the water isn't gonna be blue, I'll take photos of the sand! |
Oh, how's my wildlife photography? eh? eh?
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| Yellow butterfly....booyah! |
I did get a photo of a snake when I got back to the botanic gardens:
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| The common "Green Nylex" snake..found in most backyards across Australia... |
I then had some lunch and went to down town Cooktown for a look around.
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| The bay at Cooktown |
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| Why do they call it Cooktown? |
In the park there was a rad little thing called the "Musical Ship" which had little instruments that could bang and hit and make out tunes on.
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| The Musical Ship - very cool! |
After belting out a superb rendition of "Lean on me" I was then off to have fun with a Chinese statue, as you do.
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| Oh Mr Chinaman, I bet you say that to all the tourists... |
Day one in Cooktown complete and if you're reading this then you can rightfully assume I surived the night too.
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