So today we did a bit of a history tour and returned back to 1770!

We started at the James Cook Museum; we found out how Cook beached The Endeavour and got to see a few items that were recovered. The James Cook Museum is an old house which has gone through a few different changes over the years. It started as a Convent and a boarding school, it suffered a few disasters like fires and cyclones. During one cyclone, 1949, the convent's roof was partially unroofed and the town had dropped in its population so rebuilding the old house was not a priority.

During the WWII the Americans used the house for a naval radio unit. At the end of the War, the house was taken back by the Sisters but it was never used as a school, it remained unoccupied for many years until it got renovated and reopened in April 1970 as a museum as it is today.

On display, we can see some of the items that have come from The Endeavour, like its anchor and a cannon, the bigger items. The museum tells the story of James Cook and the crew interaction with the Aboriginals and their stay on the land. Also on display, are some artefacts from the convent and the community of Cooktown.

Our next stop was the cemetery where you could find some of the first graves dating as far back around 1874, we also found some graves of the original pioneer nuns and bishops and the unknown Chinese man representing all the Chinese people who came here for the Gold rush and didn't survive.

Interestingly enough we found one grave of some French sailors who died here from Yellow Fever on their way to New Caledonia.

We got to check out Finch Bay late afternoon, which was a beautiful beach lost in between mountains and isolated.

We finished the evening having dinner at a pub opened in 1873 and went to Grassy Hill lookout to check out the full moon reflecting on the ocean.