The Bloomfield Track- Cooktown to Cape Tribulation–18 August 2011

We took a day trip down the  Bloomfield track. Despite a number of comments about its difficulty,  it was an easy drive and very scenic. There are many lovely stopping spots.

Tricia would prefer not to take the caravan on the Bloomfield Track as it is narrow and this could make passing difficult but John thinks it is a relative superhighway although this often depends on when the grader was last through.  We met the road crew on the road and one of the crew pointed out a whale in the bay near Cape Tribulation.

 

We think Captain Cook was very understated naming Cape Tribulation.  It could easily be called Cape Disaster  as we have seen other explorers do, our particular favourites being Mt Buggery, Mt Hopeless and Mt Despair in the Victorian Alps, which leave no doubt as to the discoverer’s state of mind.

We had lunch at Myall Beach and coffee at one of the local Restaurants.

We called in at the Lions Den Hotel on the way home and had dinner. There is good camping there.