CORONAVIRUS: BEAUTY OUT OF BOUNDS AS NATIONAL TREASURES AWAIT OUR RETURN
They’ve hit the sweet spot in tropical Australia and the vast, parched interior. The sun has lost its bite, the mornings are cool and crisp. Beyond the COVID line that splits Cape York Peninsula, the warm waters of the Great Barrier Reef are so glassy that Daintree Air chief pilot Greg Letondeur can see through […]
COOKTOWN GETS $2 MILLION BOOST TO REGIONAL ECONOMY
An expansion to the Cooktown Airport and more money for the Cooktown 2020 festival are projects promised funding from the Building Better Regions Fund. Cooktown is set to receive almost $2 million under the fund to make the projects a reality. Cook Shire Mayor Peter Scott said Cooktown had become a regional service and supply […]
DAINTREE AIR BUILDS COOKTOWN’S FIRST AIRPORT HANGAR AS HEAVY MAINTENANCE JOBS GROW
A homegrown Far North Queensland business has invested $1.5 million and immeasurable passion to build Cooktown Airport’s first hangar — and it is just the start. Daintree Air Services owner and pilot Greg Letondeur received a special visit from Prime Minister Scott Morrison last week who took the time to inspect the new building. “Just a […]
