Cooktown Wanderer - Daintree

SCENIC COASTAL ROAD JOURNEY WITH ADVENTURE NORTH DAINTREE RIVER CRUISE MANGROVE BOARDWALK TRAVEL ON THE 4WD BLOOMFIELD TRACK LIONS DEN HOTEL CAPTAIN COOK HERITAGE COOKTOWN LIGHTHOUSE BLACK MOUNTAIN JAMES COOK MUSEUM SUNSET FROM LOOKOUT WILLIE GORDON ABORIGINAL ELDER ABORIGINAL ROCK ART ANCESTRAL BIRTH CAVE

This 3 Day / 2 Night Cooktown Adventure takes you on a journey of discovery. From the ancient World Heritage Listed Rainforests of Cape Tribulation and Daintree National Parks, to one of Australia's last frontiers and most historically significant township - Cooktown.

What makes it Great?

• Guided day tour of Cape Trib
• Bloomfield 4WD track
• Black Mountains 
• Outback journey home

Day One:
Commence your journey in a 4WD vehicle along one of Australia's most scenic coastal roads. You'll marvel at the undisturbed and magnificent World Heritage Listed Rainforest, cool forest canopies, breathtaking views and spectacular beaches. 

Top off the experience by sharing in a Daintree River wildlife spotting cruise. Spot crocodiles, birds and other wildlife that inhabit the area and learn about the mangroves that line the banks, some of which reach amazing heights.

Enjoy a delicious lunch by the side of of a jungle stream and take a swim in a clear waterhole (no crocs here!).

Deep into the national park take time to visit The Marrdja Botanical boardwalk, one of the specially constructed rainforest and mangrove walks. Your guide will enlighten you to the secrets of the rainforest with their informative interpretation of the rainforest, its foods, medicines and history during your guided walk. 

Following the walk you will be transferred to your chosen overnight accommodation. Enjoy the remainder of the day and evening at your leisure to explore this magical region.

Day Two:
This morning you will be collected from your accommodation by Adventure North where your journey will continue to Cooktown - The Last Frontier of North Queensland.

The 4WD only Bloomfield track allows you to travel through the heart of this World Heritage Listed area providing increadible glimpses of Australia. Travel over rugged mountain ranges and river crossings.

Stop for lunch at the Lions Den Hotel, one of North Queensland's oldest running bush pubs (est. 1875).

Visit the mysterious Black Mountains steeped in Aboriginal legend before arriving mid afternoon in Cooktown. Enjoy 360 degree panoramic views of Cooktown and the Endeavour River from Grassy Hill - have your camera ready!

Overnight stay in Cooktown at your chosen accommodation.  

Day Three:
Free time to explore one of Australia's last frontiers and most historically significant townships. Early afternoon we depart Cooktown as we travel on the inland Peninsula Development Road travelling through the Outback of Far North Queensland.

Optional Extra:

Guurrbi Tours - Aboriginal Rock Art
Visitors to Cooktown now have the rare opportunity to see the Nugal Rock Art sites through the eyes of a traditional owner and to learn why their conservation is so important to the Nugal-Warra people.

This magical award-winning Aboriginal tour with Nugal-warra Elder, Wilfred (Willie) Gordon, is now listed as One of Australia’s Ultimate Must-Do Experiences.

Willie, the traditional story-teller of the Nugal-warra clan, takes guests to his ancestral rock art sites, set high in the hills above Hope Vale, outside Cooktown. Here he shares the stories behind the art, and explains how the cave paintings speak of the essence of life and the lores of his people.

This walk will take you through a dramatic landscape to six different rock art sites, each depicting different aspects of Aboriginal culture and scoiety. You will visit two sites of particular significance to the Nugal-warra people - an ancestral Birth Cave, and the Reconciliation Cave.

With his great smile and infectious laugh, Willie gives an amazing insight into Aboriginal culture and society, and shows how we all have a spiritual place, wherever we come from.

The "Rainbow Serpent" Tour departs Cooktown at 7:45am and returns to Cooktown at 1:15pm. Includes an estimated 30 minute bush walk on generally easy terrain.

Departures:
Sunday and Wednesdays.

Highlights & Inclusions:

• 4WD air-conditioned vehicle
• Friendly knowledgable driver-guide
• Scenic coastal routes
• World Heritage Rainforests
• Daintree River Cruise
• Guided Rainforest Boardwalk
• Overnight Cape Tribulation
• 4WD only Bloomfield Track
• Lunch at an Aussie Bush Pub
• Black Mountains
• Overnight Cooktown
• Outback Far North Queensland
• Optional - Aboriginal Rock Art Tour

Child Rates Apply 3 - 14 yrs

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