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Townsville Slideshow
Townsville
Travel Blogs from Townsville, Australia
Oscar's freind Elvin
During our stay at Cobbold Gorge and Townsville Oscar met a 'Bob the Builder' enthusiast named Elvin. Elvin, who was 4 years old, also bought an assortment of Bob toys on his travels. The two played endless 'bob/dinosaur' games during our stay together ...
Real aussies...
... e perguntou se agente queria sentar com ela e o vizinho dela porque era mais legal ela falou. Era pessoas dessa cidade Townsville. Desde o inicio eles eram bem legais depois do jantar fomos para um bar australiano que so tinha australianos. Nossa, eu ...
G'Day Townsville and Magnetic Island
... Cost xxx 6 hours later and I have arrived safely at the Sea link ferry port in Townsville. Townsville lies at the heart of coastal Queensland and is Australia’s largest tropical city. It looks very nice and tempting to explore but the island has ...
Back again...
Richard There's not much to be said about coming back to Townsville apart from the fact that I can now add Spanish Mackerel to the list (two is a list isn't it?) of fish that I can't eat. For some reason tuna does not agree with me anymore (I used to ...
Townsville
We thought Townsville was awfy nice although the Lonely planet guidebook said otherwise. It had a lovely boardwalk along the beachfront and a great shop that sold ace ice-cream (cookies and cream with crushed crunchie for Ange and Date cake ice-cream with ...
Townsville diving trip with a load of nutters
Well folks we arrived in Townsville on the 10th checked in and all then went for a quiet pint in the bar at the front of our hostel ended up Joel and I where the last to leave sat and drank with the owner of the place and chatted all night wild crack. Up ...
Maggie Island!
... so I went straight to the back, lay down and pretty much slept for most of the five hour journey from Cairns to Townsville. Once we were dropped off at Townsville we then had to catch a ferry over to Magnetic Island. Magnetic Island is absolutely ...
Retur til Townsville
... legepladsen lige ud til stranden. Herefter kørte vi det sidste stykke til Nelly Bay havn, hvorfra vi havde booket færgeoverfart retur til Townsville kl. 15.30. Færgeturen tager 30 minutter. Jeg hviler mig lidt i bilen imens Lars og børnene går op på ...
Townsville, Magnetic Island and Airlie Beach
After a 5am finish in the Woolshed on Tuesday we got up at 6am to get the bus to Townsville to meet babs and James. We arrived on the day they finally got to do their dive so we spent the afternoon exploring the area. again there was a ...
Townsville
... langs de kust op heet The Strand. Langs The Strand waren er enkelen zwembaden in de zee aangelegd, omdat het ook in Townsville tijdens het kwallenseizoen verstandig is om uit het water te blijven. Wat bekend staat als een van de andere hoogtepunten in ...
Crystal Creek
... scant trees and half eaten roo and dingo carcasses. The caravan park was much the same too, which we plumped for just after Townsville, however it came with a pool and a bit more of a beneficial grass to gravel ratio. My dads room hadn't been decorated ...
The City of Townsville
... so headed back to look at the rock wallabies which also didn't exist. Having enjoyed our day we caught the ferry back to Townsville where all the supermarkets were shut, hurrah! It was super noodles for dinner, playing about on the net and then bed. ...
Townsville - The Strand + RAAF air display
It's a very good feeling to wake up in a family home in a real bed. After the first coffee we went with Sandra to pick up the boys. Nic and Alecs stayed with their grandma & grandpa yesterday, so we had a chance to have a look at a well established ...
Townsville - Kitesurfing Lessons + Castle Hill
We went for our 2nd kite surfing lesson. This time Rachel and Luisa came along, which allowed us to get trained separately. We both had really improved with the kites, so that it hardly crashed any longer. I even managed to be on the board for a couple ...
Hitting the Town... (sville)
Howdy folks, Our next point of call was to be Townsville, really a pit stop before Cairns and the Daintree, but also an opportunity to catch up with my friend Alistair, who is based up there in the Army. The drive was uneventful, just over 300kms up the ...
Teveel muggen.....
... uur en Cast Away met Tom Hanks (jaja, dat is wel wat de australische bussen voor hebben op die in Nieuw Zeeland) kwam ik in Townsville aan. Door mijn plotselinge vertrek, had ik nog geen hostel geboekt, dus besloot ik de stad in te gaan en degenen die ik ...
Townsville, where rain is a rarity
As promised, Townsville was mighty sunny, which boded well for Magnetic Island, and the next few days. We took the opportunity to stock up on some shopping on the mainland, hoping it would be cheaper, and then made our way to the ferry terminal for 5.30 ...
Maggie and me
Maggie island was alright. Cycled up and down the winding roads, and when i say winding, i dont mean left and right winding. i mean up and down. and it really is up and down. its like climbing hills after hills. And I realise i was the ...
Townsville
... any firm plans just yet. The fantastic, amazing, generous people at Mitac have agreed to fix the GPS system here in Australia under warranty even though it was from the UK. So we have posted it down to somewhere near Melbourne and we should have ...
mon travail
Salut a tous. Voici des photos de mon travail. Je suis dans un etang proche de Townsville en train d'attraper des larves de libellules pour mon projet. J'espere que vous aimerez les photos. Je vais bientot en remettre d'autre de ma nouvelle maison et de ...
On the buses
... to check not to leave anything behind! He also became amusingly annoyed when the microphone started to play up. Arriving into Townsville around 18:00, I checked-in to the Jupiter’s Hotel (and casino…) and caught a ‘football ...
Brisbane up the Coast
... guy he sells all sorts of flavoured ice creams from some beautiful gardens we bought 8 scoops for 5 dollars (real pigs!!) Arriving in Townsville there really is not much to do but we did talk to our first aboriginal, they were painting in the street ...
Flight number 8
The flight was pretty painless and we arrived at Sydney airport again and caught the train back out to ...
Another Bin Full of Bloody Melons
... levels up to 15-20 feet or more! It's hard to imagine looking at them now, but if the 6inches of rain that hit Townsville last Thursday morning - closing down a major shopping centre due to flooding - is any indication of what's to come then maybe it's ...
Cairns - Creek waterfalls - Townsville
... been nice except in was the end of the day and the fog was settling in. Every two kilometer on the road, you pass a creek. I don't know how they can even still find names for their creeks. We are actively looking for Dawson's creek! Slept in ...
Rollingstone
Last night and tonight we are on what is known as an Absolute Beachfront Site. It is in Rollingstone, approx 60km north of Townsville and it is wonderful. All we do is watch the tide go in and out during the day, listen to the sea at night and take ...