Step back in time in Cooktown

Leave the trials and tribulations of the modern world behind with a drive through the world’s oldest rainforest to historic Cooktown in Cape York Peninsula.

This year marks the 250th anniversary of explorer James Cook becoming stranded in Cooktown for seven weeks after the HM Bark Endeavour was damaged on the Great Barrier Reef.
Cook’s stranding was an adventure in an exotic landscape where he documented Australia’s first act of reconciliation between his crew and the Guugu Yimithir…

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