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Townsville Slideshow
Townsville
Travel Blogs from Townsville, Australia
Tropical Townsville...
... solid footing....does that mean it floats? Arrived mid afternoon and took a spin up Castle Hill, the local Lookout, VERY Impressive. Townsville is bigger than we thought and we had a drive and a stroll along The Strand, lovely...mind you the weather ...
Hervey Bay, Rainbow Beach, Fraser Island
... lakes, rainforest and huge sandblows all over the island. Its also well known for having 230 species of birds and home to Australia's purest dingos. Nice... Its a beautiful place, with long white beaches (which you can't swim in because of the sharks - ...
Travelling to the East Coast
... luggage and still use the facilities, which was good as we had about 8 and a half hours to kill before the bus left for Townsville on our mammoth 36 hour journey, allowing 9 hours for a stop in Mt.Isa (due to Greyhound down sizing and loss of connecting ...
Tropical Weather!
We arrived in Townsville at about 2pm (ish) and were greeted with tropical weather... hot, humid sticky atmosphere with rain and very black clouds! We are staying in Hawe Bay - right near the water in a 'Big 4' camp... we are members of the 'Big 4'.... ...
Townsville - The Long Drive is Done
... ) pressed on to Cloncurry. A better night's sleep brought on our final driving day before the arrival on the East coast at Townsville. The following day would bring the backpacker mecca of Cairns, the Great Barrier Reef and sanity after a week or more in ...
Billabong Sanctuary- wombats and koalas!
... doing not very much...just sunbathing and sitting around having a chillout which was nice. We caught the ferry back over to Townsville on friday, then spent 2 nights there in order to see a bit more of the town. The main place we wanted ...
Magnetic Island
We stopped in Townsville long enough to visit Magnetic Island, a 20 minute ferry ride away. We planned to do some snorkelling but the water was a little churned up and there was a risk that stingers were still about. We still had a lovely day swimming ...
townsville
... es isch farbiger, noed de astrich vode hueser, sondern d maensche. in sydney oder so hemer fast kein aboriginal xeh, in townsville isch genau s gaegeteil de fall xi. im cultural centre hemer denn meh ueber d gschicht vode aborigines und torres-strait ...
MAGNETIC ISLAND
... back dripping wet but his time on the ski, he said, was 'awesome'. Tomorrow we are going to get the early ferry back to Townsville and then drive down to Airlie Beach where we are hoping to be able to do the Barrier Reef trip that we missed out on in ...
East Coast Oddessy
... us between rainforest covered mountains and mangrove coastal areas, past field after field of sugar cane and mango plantations. Although Townsville is a large town, all the urban areas here feel like they are constantly trapped in a Sunday morning - the ...
Ab in den Sueden - von Cairns nach Airlie Beach
... nach Cairns. Wir genossen den Spaziergang entlang der schattigen Uferpromenade und die herrliche Aussicht vom Castle Hill. Nach Townsville machten wir noch einen kurzen Badestopp in der Horseshoe Bay wo wir die unsere neu erworbene Frisbeescheibe ...
Townsville
... really lucky to see one as they are endangered and there are only about 1200 of them left so pretty cool really. Arriving in Townsville we soon realised there wasn't much to do there. Not a problem for me as I spent the day changiing the front drivers ...
Townsville/Magnetic Island
... , and was our first kind of view of the barrier reef, but without getting wet. Mummy W would have enjoyed it hugely!! Townsville certainly seemed to have more character than Cairns so a big improvement!! The next day we caught the ferry over to Magnetic ...
Mozzies
Well G'day everyone! I appologize for my spelling/grammer and stuff like that, I can't seem to write today. So here we are at the ferry terminal waiting for our bus which could arrive anytime between now and 3:30. We are headed south ...
Townsville and Magnetic Island
... it was to wind down the struts, set up the awning etc. No wonder she was amazed, we were too! The park at Townsville had a pool with a water slide so we spent the remainder of the afternoon there before a BBQ dinner that evening. Sue had ...
Christmas comes but twice a year
... that when I sat down to watch the footy on Saturday, Santa would be visiting me twice this year! With perfect TV reception at Townsville's Rowes Bay Caravan Park the scene was set for a big day. Tan picked up some footy food, the kids had jumped on ...
Maggie Island
... , but was half tempted to just let her at him. Anyhoo, all was well as we let the car cool down over night, checked the water and returned him safely to the shop. Phew. Returned soon after to Townsville and jumped straight on a bus an hour south to ...
Kitsch capital of Queensland?
... Magnetic and then trekked into town with our bags to buy some food at woolies before the bus came to pick us up at 1.30. Townsville looked a bit weird to be fair - reminded me of Blackpool, a bit tacky in a sense, except there really was nothing there ...
Magnetic Island
Hi there!! Here we are now on Magnetic Island!! At first I was scared my credit might stop working, but everything is ok!! It is just a nice island, where we are staying in a small bungalow! We met by coincidence Marie's friend from ...
Aquarium
Llegamos a la costa al fin, hemos apretado el acelerador, en mi caso con sudor y lagrimas pero ya estamos aqui.... Estamos a unos 700 km de Cairns y ya hay un poco mas de vida.... ya empiezan a estar los campings completos por temporada, asi que nos ...
Are we on a boat?!
... my fellow sailors, Sachi. We may our way to Magnetic Island – which is just off the coast of Queensland near Townsville. I was ready for a few days of unorganised relaxation and doing my own thing (not that being on Fraser Island and the ...
SIZZLLLLEEERRR!!!!
... its still good to be on the same side of the planet as all of you lovely folk back home. We had a quick sneak peak of Townsville this afternoon and its about the same size as Newcastle but havent they done a good job here! Its clean and tidy and the ...
Townsville/Magnetic Island CVA
Back to CVA work again! Really nice house in Townsville, plenty of room and just 5 minutes walk to the beach. Everyone English again for the first week which was a 4 day week cos of a bank holiday and it was a good job cos we didn't have much to do - just ...
Townsville
... this duck pond anytime! Today has been a rather special day. We visited the Famous Magnetic Island, a short distance from Townsville OVER WATER! Luckilly I survived the journey, mainly because the ferry was so bloody fast that we arrived almost before ...
Mokes and Magnetic
... & Bridgette arrived home from the Whitsundays, so out for dinner and drinks and festivals alllll round!! Ended up in the Townsville equivalent of the Outback before finishing up at the Casino... and the standard pizza stop on the taxi home. Friday we ...
Heading for the Red Centre
... Ankuendigung loswerden, dass Lutz und ich morgen frueh Townsville verlassen und uns gen Westen ins Outback machen werden. Von Townsville bis Adelaide planen wir mit 2 1/2 Wochen, wuerden bis Weihnachten gerne in Adelaide und der Zivilisation zurueck ...
A day in Queensland
... 't much to report for today - we drove, filled up, emptied our bladders, drove some more, ate, and slept. We arrived in Townsville at about 9pm, ordered a Domino Pizza, and fell asleep on a combination of air and foam that would even rival City Central ...
Townsville
I had a great coach ride through the night from cairns to townsville with beautifully dark landscapes and time for me to reflect on events just past, save for the fact that i was in shorts and it was freezing cold. It was at the stop off point ...