COOKTOWN October 2015
It’s been a long
while; too long, since our last trip to Cooktown. My primary reason for this visit was to
authenticate Ellie’s narrative in The
Story of Emmaline the sequel to A
Hint of Darkness. I needed to make
her words fresh and vital and confirm my own recollections. This is an amazing
community, a compilation of old and new perfectly blended. Picture us with a perfect view of the leisure
craft and fishing boats moored at the wharf on the Endeavour River. We sip
coffee and inhale (they were too scrumptious to simply eat) French pastries just
meters away from Captain Cook’s landing place. On my original trip to Cooktown
I was doing historical research for A Hint
of Darkness, the museum is a treasure trove of records relating back to the
exciting and also dark days of Cooktown’s beginnings. In 1873 The Palmer River Gold rush transformed
virgin bush into a thriving port in just weeks. However, such monumental change
cannot be wrought without cost. Now both
novels are completed and in just a few weeks will be off to the printers via
CreateSpace. Next trip to Cooktown will be for a holiday!
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