Southward bound - Townsville

Townsville pics first






Having had such a wonderful time at Karol and Vicki Winiarski's it was hard to leave. We have met some lovely families up in Cairns and had some great fellowship times together. The kids would rather be home playing with Louisa, Kalina and Sofia (yes that is a littler Sofiathan our Sohpia!) than out sightseeing and the constant traffic of Cane trains has been exciting -starting at 8am in the morning and the last one usually at about 9pm at night.

Anyway, we headed off to Branston Beach, about 150km south of Cairns and spent a few nights here. It was a perfect spot right on the beach and very quiet. We visited Josephine Falls on a drizzly day and saw more cane fields along the roadside.

From here it was onward south to Townsville - however, we hadn't banked on being there on the weekend of the V8 supercar race - that meant every van park in the city was full - yes, literally full. We free camped some 20km out of Townsville for a few nights and drove in to do a trip up Castle Hill - the best vantage point to see the race, as we found out by the number of people up there!!!

The weather is warm and mild and today we came into town and found a spot at the Riverside Convention Park (like Advent park in Perth) We went down to the local Esplanade and the kids enjoyed the water play park with a big bucket of water that splashed down every few minutes. It is a big city, population about 170,000, and we will stay here for a few nights before continung on south.