We head for Cooktown and immediately we are surprised by the beautiful ranges we are going through.
One in particular I told Merv that I was glad we were on the inside as we went up, he said "we have to come back this way, we will be on the outside then" holy crap, I may have to think about walking down that one, it is only 11/2 kms, the road is a first class one, maybe I can put my head under a pillow. The road is a great one, it has not been long since being made up to here, I hate to think how rough it would have been before it was sealed, some of the ranges are just huge solid granite.
There was burning off going on so that spoilt the veiw a bit, the ranges seem to go forever but there was a lot of smoke haze.
We booked into a camp area 9kms from Cooktown, the Endevour River Escape, it is on a farm property, huge grassy areas for each site, hot showers, flushing toilets, drinking water, fireplace at each site, most of all very quiet, only natural sounds, no road noise.
After setting up we walked down to the river but decided not to launch in this one, to small, lots of logs and obstacles but most of all a crocodile nest opposite the ramp.
There was a man taken here last year putting out his cherubim pots, I am not that keen for a feed of fish.
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