Cape York Tours – The Ultimate 4 Day Air tour

Cape York Tours – The Ultimate 4 Day Air tour

All of our specialised Cape York tours depart from the city of Cairns with a small group of like-minded enthusiasts who are keen to see Cape York maybe not for the first time, but on one of many past tours to the tip of Australia.  

We have return guests year after year wishing to return to the top to explore both new frontiers and old known haunts they have previously visited before.

Once you visit Cape York it is in your blood and in your memory for life and there is no better way to see it than on our bespoke Cairns to Cape York 4 day ultimate air tour. 

Cape York Tours – The 4 Day Ultimate Air Tour Itinerary

Day 1   (L&D)

Dep. Cairns Airport General Aviation at 8-30am

After our meet and greet, our Cape York scenic flight takes us over the brilliant blue waters of the Great Barrier Reef in Australia.

From your aircraft seat you will view Endeavour Reef where Captain Cooks ship Endeavour went aground in 1770 then on past Hope Isles thus named by Captain Cook hoping they could get there to make temporary repairs.

We fly on to Cooktown where our historical town tour takes us from Captain Cook’s visit through the Gold Rush days that brought miners from around the world to today’s relaxed lifestyle.

Our Cooktown tour includes all points of interest in town such as seeing where the Endeavour was beached and repaired; Cooks Monument and a cannon off his ship in the Cooktown Museum, enjoy the view from Grassy Hill Lookout and walk the pioneer cemetery, then have a relaxing lunch at the local RSL.

Some free time to explore town and do souvenir shopping.

Our flight departs Cooktown at 2 pm.

Your flight will pass over Lizard Island with its magnificent Blue Lagoonand Cape Melville renowned for massive boulder formations and underground rivers.

See Princess Charlotte Bay, Lockhart River, and the remote tropical wilderness below before we land at Bramwell Station, Australia's most northern cattle station. This is where we stay overnight and enjoy live entertainment and mix it with the many folks that 4W Drive the Peninsula Development Road (PDR) or “Pretty Dusty Road,” as some say.

Day 2    (B, L &n D)

Departing Bramwell Station after a hearty stockman’s breakfast we re-board our plane and fly on to Bamaga where we take our 4 wheel drive tour to The Tip of Cape York for that “I Did It” photo, and then a stop at the Croc Tent for that iconic souvenir.

We then fly around Cape York Australia’s northern most point, then over the Torres Straits to Horn Island, for our overnight stay at Gateway Resort. We will have time to explore its Heritage Museum and Art Gallery which displays a comprehensive coverage of the Torres Strait Islanders traditional lifestyle, culture and myths. the legendary pearling days when fleets of pearling lugers combed the straits for its riches and wartime history of the nations front line defenses.

Day3    (BL&D)

Breakfast 7.30am at Gateway Hotel then transfer to the wharf or walk (5 minutes) for our ferry cruise to fascinating Thursday Island, once a remote outpost of the British Empire and vital port serving shipping through the Toress Straits, and a valuable pearling industry, now the administrative center for the Torres Strait Islands.

Our tour takes us through areas that have changed very little in time, past historical Customs House and hotels, modern teaching and medical facilities. Green Hill Fort was built to defend against the Russians in Crimean War days with its underground museum and spectacular view of the surrounding islands, Prince of Wales, Horn, Good, Hammond and Friday Island with its pearling station.

Today will be full of enjoyment and relaxation with the Torres Strait Islands a pleasant surprise you will always remember.

After lunch we travel back to Horn Island Airport a hive of activity with our air tour flights going to and from the many islands. We fly south over the Torres Straits and down the west coast of the Cape to Weipa.

This remote and little known region is a haven for barramundi and prawns (shrimp) and the crocodiles habitat with its continuous beaches and numerous river deltas.

We arrive at Weipa set on magnificent Albatross Bay.

Enjoy dinner with a complimentary wine while watching the beautiful sunset into the Gulf of Carpentaria Sea.

Day 4   (B&L)

After a relaxing evening and breakfast: we tour Weipa once a remote mission and see the vast bauxite mining operation an enterprise to be admired that has grown from its rugged beginning to major supplier to the international market and a well established divers modem community.

After morning tea at the shopping centre we fly over Coen in the centre of the cape to Musgrave Station for lunch where you can cross paths once more and yarn with the 4-wheel drive travellers on their arduous adventure of Cape York.

Then on the way back to Cairns over Laura, the Daintree River Valley and Port Douglas you can look down on the inland river systems and homesteads of Cape York.

After which you will look back on the Greatest get-away-from-it-all you are likely to find in a lifetime!

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