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Our last day in Cooktown. Today is our last day in Cooktown and we decide to really look into the historic aspects of the town. So straight after breakfast out in the nice covered, but still outdoor area, we headed off to the old Cooktown Cemetery, where we had been told there was a shrine to the Chinese goldminers who died while mining in the Palmer River gold rush and others who were just killed off by aboriginal people during the walk to the Palmer River; apparently hundreds of them, as ...

A short trip where we started in Sydney, then flew in to Cairns and drove all the way to Cooktown and back, did a liveaboard on the Great Barrier Reef then flew back to Sydney.

these are photos from different trips around Australia

We, my travelmate Wilma and I, made plans together to see a lot of Australia. The country is so big that we decided to see only a few parts of it. We started in Hong Kong (stop-over), Saw Darwin, Uluru, Cape york to Cairns, Great barrier reef and drove along the coast to Brisbane.

A snake enjoyed swimming in one of the 3 pools at our caravan park. We swam in one of the others. We caught up with a Dutch family we met at Cape trib. The kids enjoyed playing together despite the language differences.