Rocks Guesthouse Townsville

... so we had to take it to garage, as we were booking it in at the one the hire company had said, they rang and asked us to take it too a different one. So we headed across Townsville to another garage and left the van for the afternoon.<br><br>We caught the bus to the center of Townsville and after a spot of lunch, when to Reef HQ, a big aquarium.<br><br>It was a pretty cool aquarium complete with glass tunnel, ship wreck, sharks, sea horses, loads of fish, sea snakes (mum ...

... walk took us around the town and towards the area around the seafront, In the marina we saw the "red Baron" biplane seaplane (the only 2 passenger, open cockpit, biplane on floats in the world - I think there are more than enough provisos to ensure that this is true!) that Catherine Zeta Jones flew in in a movie that nobody can ever remember seeeing. The seafront walkway, The Strand, was really lovely and as evening came on was full of people of ...

... Island. Or so we thought. My leg was getting worse and as we drove through Innisfail we saw a sign for the medical centre and thought we would quickly stop. It was a hospital. Before I knew it, I was being whisked off into the A&amp;E with suspected deep vein thrombosis! What is it about me and legs? Had to wait hours for the radiographer to come in (he was on call and not in any hurry to come in) so he could do an ultrasound of my left leg to check the ...

... who the sam decided to put that there off a sheer cliff !!!! <br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>The day was almost cloudless and clear...The views were pretty damned good <br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>The island is Magnetic Island in the distance<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br ><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br ...

... is manmade and the tide goes waaaaay out making all the watersports unusable. We were very lucky that our one night included a high tide during the middle of the day so we could use the equipment! We both tackled the paddle board &#8211; Rob fell off several times and banged the paddle on his nose creating a bloodbath (wasn&#8217;t as bad as it looked) and I stepped off onto the sand without even my knees getting wet &#8211; ha ha. <br><br>An unexpected bonus was the piano ...

... that know Ethan know that would of been very difficult for him). Elijah, Denzel and I spent the afternoon down the park across the road.. had fun playing at the pirate park and on the large shaped mosaic animals. Was glad to see Ethan home safely... I don't know how people cope who have children constantly unwell and in hospital for long periods of time... one day was enough for me.<br>

Für den 22. Juni haben wir uns dann vorgenommen, in Airlie Beach ein Segelschiff zu buchen. Mein Plan war eigentlich ein Fährenticket zu kaufen und so drei Inseln auf eigene Faust zu **kunden, all**dings war diese Variante unbezahlbar und so beschlossen wir dann doch ein Segelschiff zu buchen. Im Beaches Reisebüro wurde uns dann die Matador empfohlen, da sie als einziges Schiff auch Camping an Land anbietet. Am 23. Sollte also die große Reise los gehen &#8211; 2 Tage, 2 Nächte. D ...

... Lots of new friends. <br> <br>We travelled about 240 <br>kms from Bowen including our slight inadvertent sightseeing tour! <br> <br>The weather is great - <br>about 28 degrees but cool and fresh in the evening - not cold though.  Best of all some of our neighbours here <br>say that Townsville is clear of Dengue Fever so we can have bare skin without <br>worrying unduly.  However I am still <br>getting bitten by mosquitos so I think I still need ...

This was probably one of andrews best days. And i loved it too. Today we went to visit the Billabong sanctuary just outside Townsville. Its a great place, a huge place with acres of land for animals to run around in. When we arrived there were kangaroos and wallabies hopping around our feet looking for food or lazing in the shade. We moved around listening to the keepers ...

... then jumped into the car and continued heading south. <br><br> <br><br>We had a few rain showers as we headed back through the mountains, over the river on the car ferry, and into Port Douglas, which we'd decided to skip on ...