Day 62 - Cooktown, 28th August 2025

The alarm was set again this morning!! There is way too much of that happening lol! We wanted to get an early start out to Elim Beach to check out the Rainbow Sands. Lucky we did as it proved quite tricky to find.

We stopped at Hope Vale for Rach & Shaun to grab a coffee. There were so many dogs there and a couple of them clearly neglected, it broke my heart. 

We made it to Elim Beach but the signage wasn’t great so we ended up taking the track up past the campground I think towards Cape Bedford. Wherever we were, it was beautiful. And all part of the adventure.








Found lots of these weird formations on the beach which we discovered are made by lug worms! 


When you gotta go, you gotta go!


Worked out we were in the wrong spot and made our away back to Elim campground. It was a beautiful spot and had camping right on the beach. We were going to stay here a night but it didn’t work out with the timing. In hindsight that was a good thing as the road in was t great and apparently there were heaps of sandflies. 



Back in the car and we managed to find where we were supposed to go. Parked the car and then had a Lin, hot but very scenic walk along the beach.



The colours were okay…




..but then we rounded the point and found what we had come to see. The colours of the sand was spectacular!






It looked a little like a crime scene!


The photos just don’t justice to the colour and patterns.





On the way back we stopped to have a look at Isabella Falls. It was a really pretty little spot, not huge but really close and worth seeing.







We decided to pop in to town and check out the lookout at Grassy Hill. Just WOW!





The lighthouse was gorgeous!! And it’s still in operation.




 Back to the park for another afternoon of snoozing by the pool!! 

Late afternoon we went back down to the waterfront to have a bbq and watch the sunset. Can’t complain!







We went back to our caravan park and played some more cards and then watched the end of the Legends AFL game. It was pretty funny.










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