Cooktown

The feature of Cooktown was Captain Cook's Museum. The most stunning piece was the anchor that was recovered from the sea of Cook's ship "The Endeavour". It was huge like 300 times bigger than our anchor is. It was really fossilized all black, well restored for it's age.

There were alot of indigenous artefacts and stories told from their perspective of the arrival of white people to their land.

IN Cooktown we met Karin and Jean Francois from Switzerland who were also travelling on the rally.  We had a fantastic meal together at the local bowling club of all places and set off down the creek the next day in search of crocodiles.

No such luck, in our sightings much to the disappointment of Karin and Jean Francois and
after a couple of days food shopping we set off for Lizard Island.