Cooktown - the locals say "come to Cooktown and get blown away".....you better believe it!

Oh, the trades are blowing, and blowing and blowing! But the bugs are also blown away and at least it is warm, not raining, with fluffy white clouds.
After leaving Wonga, we went on a croc spotting trip on the Daintree River. The river banks were either absolutely covered in thick rainforest or cleared land that resembles the Bega Valley. Saw a few crocs lazing in the sun.
After the boatrip we crossed the river on the car ferry and went to Cape Tribulation (I have named it Cape Dripulation) to spend a couple of nights at Noah Beach in a Queensland National Parks camp. Very nice place except everytime I go to Cape Trib oops, Cape Drip it drips. We must have had 50mms of rain in the two nights, even during the day it was misty and cloudy and of course, the trades were blowing. BUT it was still lovely to wander the beach. We met a lovely couple of ladies around our age, fishing up one end and they invited us for a cuppa the next day. Now have a new friends one is called Lyn, she has a grandpa friend in Canberra so we will catchup. Lovely lady and her sister Pam lives in Cairns.
We had a great drive up the Bloomfield Track. Spectacular views along the coast and as it is where the Great Divide meets the sea the mountains and valleys are quite steep. A couple of creek crossings but it was very easy with the Landcruiser, the locals have done lots of work on the track to make it easy and safer.
Came on the Cooktown and are staying in a camp in town waiting for mail from France. It is a great town, nice folks and lots of interesting things to see. Doing lots of walking, my ankle is good and strong and Christian knee op has helped but he still has some pain. Getting old can be a pain sometimes.
It is good to be on the road.... now we are out of the rain, I love wandering around these nice places. Cooktown is not in rainforest at all so no rain since we arrived, we are warm and happy outside. So different to our very cold Murrumbidgee Meander, we now have 12 hours of daylight Now it is 6.19pm I am sitting outside in a teeshirt updating this blog, how good is that!