Day 35 - Port Douglas, QLD Tuesday 17th November Milly completing school work. Jed reading magazines drinking coronas! All Day!

Day 34 - Port Douglas, QLD Monday 16th November We took off from Cooktown after a bit of a rough night as the rain that had been threatening finally came and of course, we weren't prepared! Up and out of the tent early am packing everything up and putting under the awning closing all windows in the tent as the rain was coming in and then lying there thinking this is going to be a pain when we have to pack up in 4-5hrs time! Once we woke at about 7.30ish we in...

Day 33 - Cooktown, QLD Sunday 15th November Fishing early in the morning! Caught a little queen fish and brought him home to cook up later for dinner. Had a swim in the pool, checked out the botanical gardens and the gallery they had there, then up to the grass hill lookout for 360 degree views of Cooktown, the ocean and the mouth of the endeavour river and ranges behind. We then headed off to the Lions Den Hotel for lunch (about 30k's out the road). Matt, R...

Day 32 - Cooktown, QLD Saturday 14th November Milly woke up and screamed "Jed, It's Saturday.........you know what that means?" I said unenthusiastically "what?" Milly replied with the biggest grin "MARKETS! There might be MARKETS on today" Jed replied "ok, I'm going fishing!" Anyway on a serious not, yes there were markets but very ordinary and not much chop. Took all of 2 minutes to peruse and realise there was nothing there for us. We then strolled across t...

Day 31 - Cooktown, QLD Friday 13th November Big day driving. We had originally planned to camp at Musgrave Roadhouse again and then set off from here through the lake field national park for a look. After a bit of discussion we decided we were sick of one night stays and would prefer to go and setup in a place and stay for a few days and relax and do some day trips if we felt like it. That being the case we pushed on, and with Milly's croc phobia getting worse ...