Townsville

We set off to Townsville fairly early. The roads seemed to have improved (still the Bruce Highway). As we got closer to Townsville we noticed an increasing amount of land given over to the production of sugar cane. The road was in use by more caravanners and joining us was troop movements by the Australian Army. We had our customary two stops, the last near Proserpine.

We arrived at our destination (Magnetic Gateway Holiday village) around 3:30pm and unhitched the caravan, connected up to the water and electricity supplies, tuned in the television and radio channels and made a cup of coffee.

Evening entertainment

We had read on the reception notice board that there was to be a free entertainment night comprising a free 'sausage sizzle' and a guitar wielding singer (donations gratefully accepted). This turned out to be fairly good as we had taken a couple of fold up chairs and drinks to settle in with the other like minded travellers (most if not all were of the "gray nomad" variety).

One of many historic buildings

Today we drove into the Townsville CBD and walked around the city taking in the sights and viewing the many historic buildings on offer.











Later we drove up the castle lookout for a 360 degree view of Townsville and the surrounds including Magnetic Island.







At around 1:30pm we drove back to the caravan taking with us a present for Buddy as we had confined him to the caravan while we were out. Once lunch was over we took a short drive to the local shops to stock up meat for the next few days.

We have yet to decide what we will do during our last full day here .......

For our last day we decided to revisit Townsville CBD as it had so much to offer. We spent our time in the "Strand" area which was essentially a major road running parallel with the Ocean.

The walk ways were full of information plaques and sculptures, while the road side was occupied by various hotels, motels highrise apartments and sidewalk cafes and restaurants.






There was numerous Bar-B-Q settings for families to use and the grass areas were set out for family use.

Did you spot it?

One special 'thing' we saw is in this picture - see if you can spot it!

Local wild life

The caravan park was often visited by the local wild life, while the weather was fantastic just like summer.








Tomorrow we set off for our final outbound location - Port Douglas.