14 August – Thursday
Barefoot bowls at Cooktown was definitely an experience. Twenty people turned up to play and I think we were the only two people who played without a beer and cigarette in our hands. It was also quite challenging playing in gale force winds – or just a breeze, as we were told. Anyway, our team did well and won the lucky draw of winning teams – we won free entry for next week! Les won a stubby holder for getting his bowl (bowled backwards through his legs) closest to the crocodile. Everyone was very hospitable, and laid back, and we enjoyed our evening.
Today we left the wind behind and headed south for Atherton. We had travelled this road on the way to Cooktown but did make a 4 km detour to the Lion’s Den Hotel, on the Bloomfield Track. This means we can now truthfully say we have driven on the Bloomfield. At 9.00am, the hotel was open for business, although we were the only ones there and didn’t buy anything. The hotel is well known, is a tin shed and decorated inside by customers. Quite fascinating.
We stopped at Mareeba for lunch and a visit to the information centre, before heading to the Big 4 Caravan Park at Atherton. This is a nice caravan park, with lots of bush and birds, no crocodiles, but I’m sure there must be snakes about. There is also free wifi internet, which is fast and works well.
Question to ponder: How many termites are there in Australia? There must be millions of termite mounds, both great big ones and little, pointy ones.
Barefoot bowls at Cooktown was definitely an experience. Twenty people turned up to play and I think we were the only two people who played without a beer and cigarette in our hands. It was also quite challenging playing in gale force winds – or just a breeze, as we were told. Anyway, our team did well and won the lucky draw of winning teams – we won free entry for next week! Les won a stubby holder for getting his bowl (bowled backwards through his legs) closest to the crocodile. Everyone was very hospitable, and laid back, and we enjoyed our evening.
Today we left the wind behind and headed south for Atherton. We had travelled this road on the way to Cooktown but did make a 4 km detour to the Lion’s Den Hotel, on the Bloomfield Track. This means we can now truthfully say we have driven on the Bloomfield. At 9.00am, the hotel was open for business, although we were the only ones there and didn’t buy anything. The hotel is well known, is a tin shed and decorated inside by customers. Quite fascinating.
We stopped at Mareeba for lunch and a visit to the information centre, before heading to the Big 4 Caravan Park at Atherton. This is a nice caravan park, with lots of bush and birds, no crocodiles, but I’m sure there must be snakes about. There is also free wifi internet, which is fast and works well.
Question to ponder: How many termites are there in Australia? There must be millions of termite mounds, both great big ones and little, pointy ones.
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