Pretty Little Cooktown Qld: Friday, Saturday 21, 22 Sept 2012 Friday; a working day for normal folk who haven't retired, so Dave and I walked a short distance into the little town of Cooktown to post off some birthday presents back to WA. It's not worth firing up the motorbikes to ride such a short distance, and the views of the coastal town are so pretty, why rush? The locals seem to be friendly; everyone says gidday and we thoroughly enjoyed our day of sights...

Sunrise, Sleepy Head, The long way round and a Cloud of Feathers - Thursday 20th September Moving day again and time to leave the "luxury" of the Safari Tent. I wanted to see a sunrise over the ocean. As all sunrises in WA are over the hills and sunsets over the ocean I set the alarm to get up at 6:00am and head for the beach to watch the sunrise. Trish had decided that sleep was more important as you will see from her photo. It turned out a few others had t...

He is a well behaved crocodile . . . . . . - Wednesday 19th September 2012 Come morning in the Safari Tent and all is still black. The tent is made from heavy duty green canvas and the windows are roll down flaps of the same canvas so no light, despite the sun having been up for an hour, could penetrate the tent. Breakfast was taken on the veranda, mainly because of the lack of room inside. By unplugging one of the fans and using our own kettle we were able ...

Ferries, Cassowaries and Safari Tents - Tuesday 18th September 2012 Only 141km to travel to Cape Tribulation and our first tent pack up for ages was completed with ease. Just out of Cairns we hit our first road works and lollypop person and our first long delay. With the scenery around so great it didn't really matter as we came across more and more road works. A lot of the road was only 80kmp speed limit and down to less on the twisty mountain bits. Mount...

Monday 17th Sept: Snorkelling on the Great Barrier Reef. An early start for us today, off to the wharf area in Cairns to do a tour of the Great Barrier Reef. There are so many cruise tours available, it was hard to choose, ranging from very cheap to quite expensive, depending on what was offered. Each tour operator has a licence to go to a certain part of the Great Barrier Reef. We ended up choosing a company called "Passions of Paradise" and we thoroughly enj...