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finch bay near the botanic garden of cooktown
mt cook (au) from grassy hill lookout. james cook climbed up these hills to check out his way further up to cape york and torres strait.
lighthouse on grassy hill (1886).
main road of cooktown (charlotte street)
almost every touristic thing is connected to james cook:
james cook museum
cooktown airport
mt cook (cooktown qld au)
yes! there exists a mt cook near cooktown. its more a hill than a mountain compared to mt cook in new zealand. but to climb the 450 m to the top through dense jungle in the tropical zone of australia made us sweat a lot. (maybe it was the thought to step on a snake in the underwood, that made us sweat)
mt cook: view from finch bay
cooktown: view from the foot of mt cook
view down australias east coast from a lookout near the top of mt cook qld.
to get to the "summit" of mt cook the two explorers had to cut their way through tropical vegetation, passing sticky plants and animals with eight feet...
hope vale: rainbow serpent rock art tour
one ultimate "must do" arround cooktown is the `rainbow serpent rock art tour` with wilfred (willie) gordon a nugal-warra elder.
his understanding of the world, life and anything else is one experience you`l never forget. this tour is very informative and deeply emotional. he brings together aboriginal life and western points of view, that no reconciliation ever achieved.
he lives at hope vale, an aboriginal community council about 45 km northwest of cooktown.
on his tours willie explains plants and their use to interested tourists.
in between he shows you a different view of the three essential S.
the first two S stand for spirituality and survival. the third was added by modern society: $
under some rocks near hope vale is a birth cave, where women gave birth to their children.
willie explains the paintings and symbols on the rocks (rock art).
ngamu the guurrbi man
the rainbow serpent
wilfred (willie) gordon
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