North to Cooktown

We realised that we couldn’t really spend a month in Cairns so decided to head north. We left Cairns on the same day as Graeme and Hazel left to go south. Our first stop was at Port Douglas it was Sunday so we wandered round the market and then round the town. It’s a beautiful drive from Cairns and the town is lovely as well if not a bit commercialised. The following day we headed in to the Daintree rainforest and up to Cape Tribulation. Again the scenery is spectacular. We couldn’t follow the coast road to Cooktown though as it’s only passable by 4WD so we had to come back down to Mossman. This gave us a chance to go to Mossman gorge which is surrounded by rain forest and surprise surprise it poured down with rain while we walked along the gorge and through the rain forest. We then had to take the land road up to Cooktown and we left the green lush landscape and headed back into the dry arid landscape of the outback.