#cooktown

[travelmanposts]

Lizard Island, Queensland, Australia: Lizard Island, also known as Jiigurru or Dyiigurra, is an island on the Great Barrier Reef in Queensland, Australia, 1,624-kilometre northwest of Brisbane. It is part of the Lizard Island Group that also includes Palfrey Island, and also part of the Lizard Island National Park. Lizard Island is within the locality of Lizard in the Cook Shire. The traditional owners of the Lizard Island group are the Aboriginal Australian clan known as the Dingaal (or Dingiil) people. Wikipedia

[huariqueje]

Cooktown Lighthouse - Rachel Niewling

British , b. 1956 -

Engraving , 61 x 45.5 cm. Ed. 50

[unteriors]

Hope Street, Cooktown, Queensland.

[priyakhurana]

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[lukesalbumawheneverhefeelslikeit]

3589: "Cosmic Australiana" by - Boing Boing

[jeanhm]

[trucenz]

CAPE BEDFORD TO FLINDERS ISLAND

[may-k-world]

ポロっととれてしまったカランコエの蕾を土に刺すように置いといたら、なんとキレイに咲いてくれました🌼 いつもスーパーで買うデンファレも、落ちた花を挿しておくと、これが結構長持ちするんですよね〜🌹

[travelmanposts]

Lizard Island, Queensland, Australia: Lizard Island, also known as Jiigurru or Dyiigurra, is an island on the Great Barrier Reef in Queensland, Australia, 1,624-kilometre northwest of Brisbane. It is part of the Lizard Island Group that also includes Palfrey Island, and also part of the Lizard Island National Park. Lizard Island is within the locality of Lizard in the Cook Shire. The traditional owners of the Lizard Island group are the Aboriginal Australian clan known as the Dingaal (or Dingiil) people. Wikipedia

[quote-it]

Cyclone Jasper approaches Cooktown

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-10/tropicle-cyclone-jasper-cairns-mackay/103209596

[chickensarentcheap]

Hello can I please have 💩🥛🍬🍯🏡 thank you😍😘

Thank you!!!! <3 <3 <3

A ridiculous headcanon: IDK if it's ridiculous, but I think Esme should have hooked up with Alcott. A little 'friends with benefits' situation

A drink headcanon: My favourite one revolves around tea. Esme is a 'tea granny'. However, whenever she makes her own, she always leaves some in the cup; Tyler finds the mugs with tea in them all over the house. But when he makes the tea for her, she never leaves any behind. She says it's because 'it tastes differently' when he makes it.

A family headcanon:

Every second year, they take a family trip to Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida.

A food headcanon:

Esme can't cook for shit, but she's an excellent baker

A home headcanon: While their primary residence is in Cooktown, Australia, they also own a brownstone in Gramercy Park in NYC, a getaway place in Tasmania, and their old farmhouse in Telluride, Colorado

[the-mandolorian]

Traveling through the history of portrait Photography.

“Woman seating in a chair at Cooktown, Queensland,”1880-1890,

photographer unknown,

via State Library of Queensland, Australia.

[birnbaumsdownunder]

Northqueensland & On Top of Queensland

Nach unserer Wanderung auf den Devils Thumb hatten wir ersteinmal tierischen Muskelkater und haben uns am nächsten Tag auf einige einfache, bequeme Regenwaldwanderungen und Boardwalks durch die Mangrovensümpfe beschränkt. Über den Bloomfieldtrack ging es durch den Regenwald die Küste entlang weiter nach Cooktown. Wieder hiess es für uns Luft aus den Reifen ablassen und einige Flüsse durchqueren, was für uns immer sehr spannend ist. In Cooktown ließen wir es uns nicht nehmen, den gleichnamigen Mt. Cook zu besteigen, der mit 493 m einen schönen Ausblick über Cooktown bietet. Ebenfalls mit Grat 5 eingestuft ( die Australier haben eine Schwierigkeitsbewertung von 1-5 für ihre Wanderwege) war dies ein Spaziergang im Gegensatz zu unseren anderen Gipfeln. Weiter ging es für uns über die Battlecamp Road, zurück zu den Atherton Tablelands, wo noch der Bartle Frere auf unserer Bucketlist stand. Mit 1622 m der höchste Gipfel in ganz Queensland. Die meisten besteigen ihn in 2 Tagen mit einem Biwak in Gipfelnähe. Wir stiegen bereits um kurz nach 6 Uhr mit Stirnlampen von unserem Camp los. Durch die verschiedensten Vegetationszonen durch riesige Granitkugeln, im oberen Teil mehr klettern als wandernd standen wir um 11:11 Uhr auf dem Gipfel und waren um 16 Uhr zurück im Camp, wo wir nach 10 Stunden froh waren, dass unser Zelt schon stand, wo wir nach dem kochen ohnmächtig einschliefen...

[tomdirensselaer]

AI colorized studio portrait of Elizabeth Plane seated in a chair at Cooktown, Queensland, 1880-1890. Elizabeth, who was 23 at the time, arrived in Queensland on a ship called the Cheybassa in 1881.

[jeanhm]

Port Douglas and Cooktown

Having had a pretty rough time in Cairns with duff accommodation we decided to head to Port Douglas and to go to Cape Tribulation which unfortunately we couldn't quite get to because of landslips. However we made the most of the additional time in the north and also spent our last day in Australia driving all the way across the Tablelands to Cooktown.

Being a sunday it was pretty dead but it was really quite amazing to think we were standing on Grassy Hill where Captain James Cook once stood! The tablelands were also surprising in terms of landscape and again something very different from the rainforest you associate with Queensland. Really glad we did this extra bit. Its also really interesting to have been in the Cape York area which is very different all round from everywhere else we have been and is really remote and wild with bridges with no barriers and roads barely wide enough for two vehicles, thankfully there was also little traffic!

Now its on to New Zealand for the next stage of this mega trip

[charlesandmartine]

Friday 6th December 2024

Big day today. We returned to Airlie Beach bright and early for our flight across the Whitsundays and on and over the Great Barrier Reef! We needed to park in Woolworths carpark and present ourselves to the tour operator outside the Nomads Backpackers office. Anxious obviously in case they mistook us for Backpackers! A whole new world might open up.

Approximately 1,400 miles long and 12 miles or so off the coast from Airlie Beach, this living organism, the Great Barrier Reef stretches from the tip of the Cape in the north of Queensland to Bundaberg in the south, not too far from the NSW border. This is the equivalent roughly of London to the south of Italy! In area, it has been compared to 70 million football pitches! This World Heritage Site can be seen from outer space and is made up of billions of tiny organisms known as coral polyps. The 12 seater, single propeller plane, took off from Airlie Beach Airport at 11 am. this morning to take us firstly on a spin around the Whitsunday Islands, pointing out Whitehaven Beach, said to be in the top 3 most beautiful beaches in the world, and then out to the Reef. We were advised this was the optimum time of day today to view the Reef as it was midway between high and low tide. The Great Barrier Reef is, in fact, a collection of some 2,900 individual reefs. In the hour or so, we had of our rather young pilot's time we could only view a very small part of the structure, but as we approached, although there was an instant recognition of what we were seeing, simply because it is so iconic, at the same time we were completely in awe of its complexity, of the appearance of islands, of inner waterways, of rivers or canals forging passageways through the groups of reefs. The indigenous peoples have known about the Reef for thousands of years, and it forms an important part in their spiritual beliefs. European man knew nothing of it until Captain Cook hit it in Weary Bay, near Cooktown, on 11th June 1770. His ship, the Endeavour, was stuck fast on it, and had he not managed to free it, perhaps the whole history of Australia might have had to be rewritten. Seeing just part of this huge thing was absolutely amazing, and once again, we feel privileged to have seen it.

Still feeling just a little stunned from the experience, we were dropped off by the tour guide very close to our sandwiches in the car behind Woolworths in Airlie Beach. We sat and ate them in relative silence still pondering the enormity of what we had just seen. Then a trip into Woollies to buy a bit of food and the set off for home by Dingo Beach, passing yet again through the sugar cane fields. These are interesting because this is a continuous crop split across many fields, each with crops at a different stage of growth. So some fields had been harvested and still with stubble, next a crop just 6 inches, then 12 inches, then 2 feet, etc. until around 3 feet and ready for harvest.

Then, around 5.30, off to the beach for beer and nibbles. It was dark by the time we had walked back to our converted shed, but as we cut across the large open lawn area to the front door, we heard the thump thump thump of a kangaroo deciding not to share his evening with us. He could have watched Liam Neeson in The Commuter with us, with a helping of chicken curry.

What a great day!