Down the Bloomfield Track

We took a full day tour with Great Northern Tours south of Cooktown along the Bloomfield track. The road was bitumen as far as the Lion's Head Pub but beyond that ranged from bitumen to gravel to washouts.

Our first stop was Weary Bay:

And then we continued further to the Bloomfield River for morning tea. We saw our first crocodile in the wild on the other side of the river:

We were lucky that the road into Bloomfield Falls had reopened and the walk to the Falls from the car park was around 100m, some of it over rocky, dry river bed.

I couldn't resist buying a painting at Wujal Wujal before we drove to the headwaters of the Annan River at Shipton's Flat for lunch. We saw some serious road washouts:

But were lucky to be in someone else's 4WD!

We were the only people at our lunch spot in the rainforest:

I'll never forget my first sighting of the beautifully, electrically blue Ulysses Butterfly which was nearly the size of my palm. Sadly I couldn't manage a photo, but we did spot other butterflies on the Shipton's Flat road.

Two orange footed scrubfowl were basking in the sun and we were told that this is a rare sight:

Before driving back towards Cooktown we called into the Lion's Den Bush Pub for coffee and cold drinks:

Normally the tour would return to Cooktown after visiting the pub, but David offered to take us to Archer Point for some fantastic views of rainforest covered mountains meeting the ocean:

The wind thee was blowing very strongly:

We had a great day with a new tour company just starting up and we were very impressed with our tour.