So today we did a bit of a history tour and returned back to 1770! We started at the James Cook Museum; we found out how Cook beached The Endeavour and got to see a few items that were recovered. The James Cook Museum is an old house which has gone through a few different changes over the years. It started as a Convent and a boarding school, it suffered a few disasters like fires and cyclones. During one cyclone, 1949, the convent's roof was partially unroofed a...

We left the Daintree early. We almost had a stowaway, a lost dog tried unsuccessfully to enter our campervan. After some mucking around, unable to find the owner we convinced a shop keeper to look after her. So with dog sorted we hit the road for Cooktown. First stop was Mount Carbine. Let's say it consists of a pub and fuel station … that is it. There are two ways to Cooktown, the coastal route and the inland route. We could not take the coastal route becaus...