On the banks of the Endeavour River in 1770, the H.M.B Endeavour was warped ashore for repairs after hitting the Great Barrier Reef, at the place the local Guugu Yimithirr and Kuku Yalanji people held as a mutual meeting ground, known as Waymbuurr. This was the first European settlement on the East Coast of Australia, known to the colonials as Cooktown. The Re-enactment is performed by the European and Indigenous people of this area and is the central focus of the annual Cooktown Discovery Festival. For 50 years, the people of Cooktown have come together in June to celebrate this historic event by staging a fully costumed re-enactment of Cooks landing and his time spent in this tropical paradise with the local Bama (Aboriginal People.) The 2010 festivities are set to redefine the Discovery Festival to create a balance between the indigenous arts, culture and history and those of the Europeans so as to truly reflect the diplomatic relationship between the two cultures both in 1770 and today. The festival begins on the 12th of June and continues across the Queen's Birthday Long Weekend incorporating a Grand Parade, broad range of musical, arts and cultural displays and entertainment, an 18th century garden party with a string quartet, food and market stalls, kids activities including a carnival, the Banks Florilegium Exhibition, a campfire yarn with local Indigenous heritage tour guide, Nugal-warra Elder Willie Gordon of Guurrbi Tours and friends, and a range of arts and crafts workshops and stalls including bush tucker from the Bama communities of the region. The weekend culminates with the Re-enactment performance called Captain Cook and the Bama, which includes colonial marine drills and live musket firing. On Sunday evening be the first to see the Corroboree telling the Cook story from the Guugu Yimithirr and Kuku Yalanji people's perspectuve followed by fireworks over the Endeavour River and local Aboriginal band Black Image.