COOKTOWN BOTANICAL GARDENS

One of the highlights of Cooktown was Nature's PowerHouse  (which includes the Charles Tanner and Vera Scarth-Johnson Galleries) - an Environment Interpretive Centre  and also Cooktown's , historic Botanic Gardens..

  

About Nature's PowerHouse In the Charles Tanner Gallery there are exciting exhibitions on the wildlife of Cape York Peninsula   The Vera Scarth-Johnson Gallery is home to the superb collection of botanical illustrations by Vera Scarth-Johnson of local flowering plants.  This lady also contributed in a huge capacity to the restoration of the Botanical Gardens Historical Cooktown Botanic Gardens have a brilliant collection of live specimens of  plants collected by Banks and Solander when they came on the Endeavour with Captain James Cook in 1770. Exotic tropical fruit trees have also been planted  to trial these trees as food crops in Queensland.  To finish off our wonderful stay in Cooktown we spent some more time at Finch Bay & by The Endeavour River FAREWELL   TO   COOKTOWN