Cooktown Friday 19th June
Today it was visiting the local tourist spots. The James Cook Museum, the Botanical Gardens, Grassy Hill, The old Bank and the Lighthouse. http://www.cooktowns.com/
Lots of reading and trying to absorb the history of this place. Amazing to think that during the gold rush days when gold was discovered on the Palmer River, there were over 20000 Chinese here working the gold mines and supporting all the diggers who arrived here in the thousands and then a 100 years later the population went down to about 3000 and the town nearly died.
http://www.cooktowns.com/
The Botanical Gardens http://www.naturepowerhouse.com/ was somewhere we spent some time walking the trails through the gardens. Actually looking for a Sandlewood tree that we wanted (Bea) to collect some seeds from as they can be used in making necklaces,bracelets etc. which we have seen being sold in the markets up here. In the evening drove up to Grassy Hill which Cook climbed back in 1770 so he could get a good view of the river and see the way out for the Endeavour through the shallow waters. We watched the sunset.
Today it was visiting the local tourist spots. The James Cook Museum, the Botanical Gardens, Grassy Hill, The old Bank and the Lighthouse. http://www.cooktowns.com/
Lots of reading and trying to absorb the history of this place. Amazing to think that during the gold rush days when gold was discovered on the Palmer River, there were over 20000 Chinese here working the gold mines and supporting all the diggers who arrived here in the thousands and then a 100 years later the population went down to about 3000 and the town nearly died.
http://www.cooktowns.com/
The Botanical Gardens http://www.naturepowerhouse.com/ was somewhere we spent some time walking the trails through the gardens. Actually looking for a Sandlewood tree that we wanted (Bea) to collect some seeds from as they can be used in making necklaces,bracelets etc. which we have seen being sold in the markets up here. In the evening drove up to Grassy Hill which Cook climbed back in 1770 so he could get a good view of the river and see the way out for the Endeavour through the shallow waters. We watched the sunset.
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