Saturday, August 7, 2010

Cooktown and Laura, June 22-24

We spent the night in a cabin of a caravan park in Cooktown: it was very windy and a bit rainy too.
The girls had a good play at the playground despite the wind and they enjoyed playing music at the "musical boat". They were rather fascinated by it.
We visited the main Captain cook museum (the one in the nice house that used to be a convent).
























 













On our way to Laura we stopped at the Lions Den Pub for lunch.  It’s a great pub, especially the decorations inside.  A lot of miners used to stop there in the past. There is a campground too.




We stopped at Split rock and I went for a short but steep walk to see the aboriginal rock paintings. Amazing!
We spent one night in Laura, tiny tiny village in the middle of nowhere!
The next day we booked a tour with a guide and a ranger to see the Quinkan rock art sites. The guide drove through the bush for quite a while, it was a nice experience to be in the bush quite far from the main road. And we even spotted a wild pig!



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