Day 8 - Cooktown This morning was a bit of a "sleep in" and a slow start, time for some washing. We headed into the market in town, finished looking in a few minutes then shopped for the essentials - groceries. A quiet afternoon, swim, fishing, reading, relaxing. Kade, Nick, Paddy and Isla caught a fish or two, or three each with 2 that came home for tea. We are ready to head off again tomorrow, venturing further up the Cape.

Day 7 - Cooktown It was a lazy morning this morning, complete with "cafe style" coffees in the Roberts' caravan. Eventually we got on the road and travelled the very lazy 45 minutes to the Lions Den Hotel. This was a stop ear marked on the map from the first day we started planning the trip as this pub is in Nick's Great Aussie Pubs book. We stopped for pizzas and beers for lunch and had alook around the beautiful old pub. All of the walls have been written ...