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sightseeing in cooktown
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Cooktown’s only accommodation located on the
waterfront with spectacular ocean and Endeavour
River views!
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Tropical pool area
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Air conditioning
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TV & Fridge
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Tea & coffee making facilities
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BBQ facilities
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Family owned
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Stunning views from every room
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Across from the wharf & Captain Cook’s landing
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Sightseeing in Cooktown
A good
starting point
for a walking tour of
Cooktown is the
Post Office
in Charlotte
Street. Located at the intersection of Green
Street, this
heritage building
was erected
in
1887
.
Strolling east along the “The River of Life”
path you pass the Cooktown School of
Art Society’s “Elizabeth Guzsely Gallery”.
Alongside, the Cooktown
RSL Club
was built
in
1885
as the Daintree Divisional Board
Council Hall. In 1903 it became the Shire
Council Hall where Council operated up
to 1932.
Meander past the
Cooktown Bowls Club
,
where visitors are welcome to join in social
bowls, to the
Lion’s Park
. The local
markets
are held here on
Saturday mornings
and there
is a shaded
children’s playground
.
Across the street to the right is the
Jackey
Jackey Store
. Built in
1886
by Joseph
Neuman as a general store and living quarters,
it was part of a
flourishing trade
between
New Guinea, Cooktown and southern markets.
On the same side of the street is the new
Capers Café
.
From the park you will pass the Old Town
Well and the Cairn to
Edmund Kennedy
, who
landed at Rockingham Bay in May
1840
on
an expedition to explore Cape York and was
fatally speared
in December of the same
year. Then on to the
Cook Monument &
Cannon
. The monument, dating from
1887
,
commemorates
Cook’s landing in 1770
.
The cannon was brought to Cooktown at
the request of the Town Council. On April
10th 1885 Cooktown Council carried the
following motion, “A wire be sent to the
Premier in Brisbane requesting he supply arms,
ammunition and competent officer to
take
charge against a threat of
Russian invasion
.”
Charlotte Street, Cooktown