Travelled from Cairns to Cooktown via Port Douglas. Port Douglas is a great little fishing village gone COMMERCIAL, you can see this town at Margareaye!t River, Mt Tamborine or Leura, grossly over yuppiefied. Cooktown on the other hand is quaint and beautiful (keep it that way). Mossman is heading towards Port Douglas.
Up to Mt Molloy then on to Lakeland, overnight in the C/P. Travelled through Palmer River (River of Gold, a good book), this is all through the top end of The Great Dividing Range. The photos of the large mountain of black boulders is Black Mountain. The aborinal dream time say 2 brothers were in love with the same girl, the one that built the biggest mountain could have the girl, when they finnished the rains came and drowned the girl and the brothers turned to stone of the mountain. Life has not changed in 40,000 years!
The last 3 photos are of the Rocky Creek Heritage site of a WW11 Army base, there were between 100,000 and 300,0000 troops based here from 1942 to1945 Tom & Joe Murphy were based here and were in the 132 Transport Battalion (The Road Runners), the wall plaques are for families to have a memorial for their relatives, we are trying to organise this for the Murphy clan.
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On our way from Townsville to Cairns we stoped at a Bilyana rest area where I managed to photgraph a Cassawary, the first I have seen in real life. We then travelled to Tully here they have the Gold Gumboot festival and "have the highest rainfall in Australia" (several other places up here make the same claim), the gumboot shows the height of the annual rain fall if it all came at once. We then travelled to Babinda and stayed for 4 days in a great free camp, 60K south of Cairns, thats where we saw the Babinda pebbles, boulders in the creek. Cairns is a large city and we needed the GPS to find the Cool waters C/P, the first we have stayed in since Alice Springs. Went up to Karanda and saw some beautiful water falls.
Have thoroughly enjoyed or catch up with Pauline & Mick, and Nifty and Michelle, last night Nifty asked if we knew the Mullocks from Penrith, we then proceed to exchange a few stories of Ron and Mark, Nifty had a few very funny stories to tell.

Were off to Port Douglas to day, will keep you posted.

Travelled from Borroloola to Townsville via Comooweal, Mt Isa, Cloncurry, Richmond (home of Kronosaurus) (I dont think he sawus), Hughenden & Charters Towers.
If your ever in Cloncurry, go to the Bakery and buy a pie, they are big and beautiful!
Some of the photos I use her were from last year, of tthe same towns. Had to leave Borroloola, I had a problem with my gut, got some pills in Mt Isa and they still have not made it 100%. Had to have an auto electrician do some rewiring of the 12V plug to the van, it over heated and caused the older fridge to not work on 12V whilst travelling, this is related to the poor service from "Ryans Caravans @ Depot Rd West Dubbo". These photos show us with friends at Borroloola to travelling through Brunette Downs 360 degrees landscape, Maggie at Camooweal rodeo, the Isa ending at Castle Mountain in Townsville.

Townsville is MUCH bigger than I imagined, ther seems to be a large amount of manufacturing and industry here, its very vibrant. If you ever come here, go up Castle Hill (you cant miss it), the panorama is spectacular!