The Black Mountains - a pile of huge shiny black boulders with no soil and almost no vegetation, standing over 300m high.  It is an area shrouded in mystery and featured in many Aboriginal legends.

1. *see the old Annan Bridge which is more than a century old (and keep an eye out for the local croc!)
   

2. *try to unravel one of the greatest mysteries of nature
   

3. *hear the aboriginal legends from the ‘Dreamtime’ about the ‘Mountains of Death’
   

4. *see the spectacular Annan River Gorge
   

5. *visit the historic, famous Lion’s Den Hotel - a rustic slab hut pub built from timber cut from the surrounding scrub and indulge in a cuppa!
   

6. *Nature’s Powerhouse - situated in Cooktown’s Botanical Gardens with displays of Cooktown’s native flaura and fauna as well as the Vera Scarth-Johnson gallery with paintings, sculptures and artworks by local Cooktown artists