Sunday, 13 November 2011

Day 59 Cooktown

Today we went to the botanical gardens where the information centre was to book for Ghurri tours (an aboriginal rock painting and bush skills tour). As the tour was in the afternoon we filled in the morning by going to Quarantine Bay which was okay but nothing spectacular, then we went to Endeavour Falls for lunch. Apparently everyone use to swim there but there's recently been a croc sighting so no more swimming.

After lunch we headed to Hopevale for our Ghurri Tour where we met Willy. Willy was great and really spoke well with the kids. Richie fed a lizard a dead March fly on a length of spear grass and Flickie gave one a drink of water on a leaf.

When we arrived at the rock paintings Willy engaged the children in life lessons using the stories told by the paintings painted so many thousands of years prior.

Including stories of a sort of 'Boogey Man' shown below

Richie, Bridge and Flick all listened very intently and hopefully got some good pointers from a wise man.
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  1. Anonymous15 November 2011 at 15:33

    sounds like this was a very interesting day all round. I,m sure you all learned a lot from the wise man. Love the rock art. Had to blow up your picture Flickie to see the lizard. I can see why the croc stayed in that swimming hole. wonder if it is on holiday or planning to live there? XX Nan

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