Adventure North Australia - Cooktown
You will be collected from your accommodation by our air-conditioned four-wheel drive (4WD) vehicle. Travel north along the Captain Cook Highway, one of Australia's most scenic coastal drives towards the World Heritage Listed Daintree National Park, crossing the mighty Daintree River by cable ferry. You will journey through this spectacular wet tropical rainforest and the oldest continuously growing rainforest in the world, renowned for its amazing diversity of plant and animal life.
Your experienced guide will enlighten your journey with incredible stories and history as you continue on the 4WD only Bloomfield Track. This will take you through some of the most incredible scenery in the country, crossing rivers and mountain ranges. Lunch is at the famous Lion's Den Hotel (est. 1875), one of North Queensland's oldest running bush pubs. After lunch we continue to the unique geological oddity, which is Black Mountain, surrounded in mystery and spoken of in ancient Aboriginal legend. Arriving in Cooktown you will have a 360 degree views from Grassy Hill of the Endeavour River, Coral Sea and Cooktown. Have your camera ready! Enjoy free time to explore historical Cooktown. Return journey is by the inland road, the Mulligan Highway, traveling through a diverse landscape of cattle stations, the Palmer River goldfields region which is the outback of Far North Queensland. Stop for dinner (at your own expense) at the family run Mt Carbine Hotel. At the completion of your day you will be taken to your accommodation.
DRIVE / FLY SAFARI - Travel by 4WD to Cooktown and fly the scenic way back to Cairns. Includes up to 3 hours in Cooktown, a 45 minute flight the scenic way with Skytrans Airlines and transfers to your accommodation.
