Cooktown & Travel
Coastal Travel via the Daintree
Leaving from Port Douglas your journey of approx. 230kms will see you travelling through the cane fields of Mossman. Cane crushing season is Jun - Oct. Stopping in Mossman can make a nice lunch and also interesting tour of a large sugar mill. The sugar growing lowlands makes for some spectacular scenery when shadowed by the background of the ranges of the National Parks.
One of the most scenic areas and the start of the Daintree National Park is the Mossman Gorge, only minutes from the highway so don't drive past too fast.
The Daintree National Park itself covers a massive area of World Heritage Listed wilderness. Crossing. There is the village of Daintree which lies 10kms past the turn off to the Daintree river ferry. Often overlooked for this fact it still retains a very unique charm that cannot be replicated many other places in the world.
Click here for a map and contact details for Cape Tribulation and surrounding attractions
Travelling further north past Cape Tribulation requires a four wheel drive plenty of times throughout the year. Sometimes during the dry season there are few water crossings so travel by conventional vehicle is not impossible. It does however require a vehicle with good clearance and suspension in good mechanical condition. It is very important however, especially if not in a 4WD to seek local advice before travelling off road if there has been any rainfall as roads quickly become impassable.
Only comparing the Great Ocean Road can come close to experience you will discover when you travel down the Bloomfield Track. This is without doubt some of the most spectacular rainforest to be seen in the world, ending right onto sandy white beaches. Coming to the end you will cross the Bloomfield River which can during the wet season become impassable at high tide. Thirsty yet? the Lions Den Hotel dating from the goldrush days is not too further before you turn right onto the sealed road for the final few kilometres to Cooktown.
We are located on your right hand side shortly when you make your way into town.
Please be aware that alcohol bans apply throughout all the indigenous communities you will traverse so do not deviate off the main road in Wujul Wujul if you are carrying too much alcohol. Click to see more
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