Annes Blog

Cooktown - what bad luck! The weather got steadily worse as we got nearer and by the time we got there we were in a howling gale with palm trees bowed over and sheeting horizontal rain. Lying in bed at night with the van being buffeted from side to side and the wind shrieking! It's a shame because it is a lovely little town with a beautiful harbor and old picturesque buildings. We spent all of our one day there in the museums learning all about James Cook and his Voyages of Discovery (interesting) but not what I'd imagined we would be doing. We turned tail and fled inland the next day as the forecast is for more of the same. We are having to rethink our trip home as all this rain will have made the Outback dirt roads impassible.