Two Kids and a Camper

Blazing a trail to Camp 119 with Burke and Wills

It’s so hot out here even your shadows can’t be bothered standing up. Rock hard ground slams at the souls of your feet, slender trees seem to withhold their shade, and if the watchful crows had lips they’d be licking them overhead.

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Captain Cook chased a chook all the way to Cooktown

Cooktown is a hybrid of frontier living, and pilgrimage destination for travellers connecting the Australian history dots. It’s also the launching pad for many heading off yonder towards Cape York, ”Ya going to the tip?” being the constant question to travellers. Sadly for us this is about as far up as we’ll go, as we ponder what brought James Cook this far himself?

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