Cooktown
Step into the unspoilt beauty of Australia’s historical Cooktown. Whether it’s peace and tranquillity or action and adventure, Cooktown will delight all travellers who follow their map and the fabulous weather north from Cairns.
Cooktown accommodation has something for everyone. From secluded, pristine island resorts, rainforest retreats, luxury private homes, historical pubs and self contained apartments to the vast landscape and experience of an outback station or homestead, Cooktown will surprise every holiday maker.
Cooktown is steeped in a rich history waiting to be uncovered. If it is exciting things to do in Cooktown, try the Queens birthday weekend in June when Cooktown proudly hosts the annual Discovery Festival. Celebrating the first recorded landing of Europeans on Australian soil, the festival is a weekend marked on all tourism calendars.
The natural beauty and solitude of Cooktown’s miles of long, golden beaches bound by the green of pristine rainforest on one side and the aquamarine of the home of the Great Barrier Reef on the other, beckons you to relax and enjoy a truly unique holiday experience.
However, Cooktown is not as quite as it seems. The abundance and range of Cooktown tours will surprise and delight. Boasting a fifteen minute boat ride to the fringing reefs of the Great Barrier Reef, Cooktown offers diving, snorkelling and the action packed, adrenalin rush of heavy tackle Black Marlin fishing. For those fisherman preferring the quiet life, one can try their hand with a lure or fly – either way there is a story waiting to be told! Enjoy the thrill of a personalised air tour taking in the breathtaking landscape and rugged terrain of the accessible outback or a 4WD extended safari, before relishing the opportunity to walk with an Indigenous elder on his traditional land. Cooktown tours will also teach the fascinating European history of early Australia through the museum, cemetery, war time artefacts and Botanical Gardens.
And if all this action tires you out, wander up to Cooktown’s Grassy Hill, and watch the awe inspiring sunset over the red and gold of the far reaching Australian outback.
