Cooktown was lovely with a friendly community welcoming of tourists. In fact Tourism is now the main industry around here and the whole country North of Cooktown is now opening up for Tourism with camping sites and reasonable 4WD tracks everywhere. We spent some time in the Cooktown Museum ( http://www.nationaltrust.org.au ) which was really interesting, the best bit for me was the day by day transcriptions from James Cook and Joseph Bank&#039;s diaries whilst they were stranded here.