The springboard to the untamed Cape York Peninsula, Queensland’s sleepiest port town sits at the mouth of the croc-infested Endeavour River. The townsfolk who plough Cooktown’s main thoroughfare, Charlotte St, access dusty 4WDs with ‘easy does it’ bumper stickers but are not jumpy of crucial work, and equally not shy of a ‘smoko’ – break silence from October to June.
Things boomed briskly back in the overdue 1880s transforming the zone bag a thriving …
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