Oaks Anchorage Townsville

... sound. Jo has done some work on the sewing machine. The weather up here at the moment is absolutely perfect, yes we are getting 30 deg days but accompanied by a cooling sea breeze most afternoons and the evenings are balmy.<br> <br>This weekend we take off to Townsville Hash 1750th Anniversary run. We did their 1500th in April 2004 and what a great run that was, so we expect a big weekend.

... in the sun. It&#8217;s bizarre! It&#8217;s also the dry season. The heavy rains occur in summer.<br><br>Anyway, on to Townsville, just outside of which we found the Big Brolga, a large bird in the crane family, often found in this area. Aboriginal legend says that Brolga was a once famous dancer called Buralga. However, she spurned the attentions of an evil magician who changed her by combining her with a whirlwind cloud of dust into a graceful crane!<br ...

Sunday 2 August<br><br>God, what a day! Up with the larks, or rather kookaburras, who decided to be in full song (or cackle) right on top of our campervan at the hideously early time of 6.30am! Finished packing up the campervan and drove down to Cairns to pick up the hire car and drop the van off. Car not ready, so had to hang around for an hour. Went for a coffee on the sea front. Eventually got car, and drove to the campervan place for a showdown over the ...

... Magnetic Island...But first we wanted to drive up the hill in the middle of the township and have a look around .....<br><br><br><br>This was an interesting looking church we came across ...Note the rather 'Dan Brown' sinister URL of 'Spiritus.org'...I was going to go on and make fun of them over it here ...

... but all the same, very nice indeed. Most people get a golf buggy to haul themselves around but we caught the shuttle bus around the island to get a feel for the place and our informative driver pointed out John Travolta&#8217;s house (which you can&#8217;t see from the road, but has a nice fence!) and the house where the guy who won "The World&#8217;s Best Job" competition lives. We overhead some guys talking on the ferry &#8211; he is very unpopular as he has not been ...

We started off the day packing up and heading to a new caravan park in Townsville rather than on the outskirts. Unfortunately there were no powered sites available but it's a prime spot right on the water so have dicided to go unpowered for the night and then will move to a powered site tomorrow. I then took Ethan to his specialist appoint for his hand and when we got there we found out ...

... Some of the biggest swells I have ever been on, about 2m or so. Good good fun. Now I can say I have paddled on the Great Barrier Reef! After paddling Marie and I had a relaxing day at the beach, ate more Noodies, and moved to the party hostel, where we fell asleep at 8pm after battling our way through the worse kitchen yet! We left Maggie early the following day to explore Townsville until our bus came to take us to Mission Beach.

... and was surrounded by beautiful walks such as Hawkings Look Out Point which we climbed on our 2nd day. The views from here across to Townsville and Rocky Bay down below were simply stunning. On the way back down we got talking to a 78 year old local called Les Mitchell, whose twin brother also lives on the island, really interesting bloke who claimed to have laid the pneumatic signals hanging under the Sydney Harbour bridge - clearly a good head ...

... that sounded like fun. <br><br>We quickly popped onto the beach on the way to enjoy the sun...<br><br> <br><br>...we weren't the only ones!<br><br> <br><br>The Dubuji boardwalk took us right into the middle of the ...

... var alt for grumset til at man kunne se noget som helst saa vi skyndte os tilbage for at komme i bad og koge kartofler. Vi havde nemlig en aftale med Christina, Mikael og Henriette. Vi skulle grille nede paa en strand i en af de andre bugter - super hyggeligt og den flotteste solnedgang. Desvaerre havde Lui det ret skidt, der nu har vaeret syg 1 uge - snot forkolet er hun <br>Efter aftensmaden gruisede vi ellers bare ...