Best Western Castle Lodge Mtl Townsville

I caught the Greyhound to Townsville from Cairns at lunchtime. The journey was uneventful (no sightings of any kangaroos but plenty of banana trees) other than people trying to get further down the coast than their ticket prohibited. Pretending to be asleep didn't work with this coach driver. In fact, his rigour in sticking to 'official’ Greyhound policy was mildly amusing. His insistence of sticking to the scripted announcements pre and post each stop was relentless, though to his ...

... weeks) and was hoping to try go catch a game or go to a training session to grab an autograph. However it turns out that his team is based in Townsville which is the place we have just left to catch the ferry, we do go back through it on Friday but only for a few hours to catch a bus, so unless I can figure something out the chance of meeting the Liverpool Legend might have to go on hold because I'm not sure if I can justify taking the 6 hour bus journey back ...

... to Townsville. After a pleasant bus journey that took just over 5 hours we arrived in Townsville for a night before getting on another boat tomorrow to take us to ferry us across to Magnetic Island, not sure of where the name comes from but sure we'll find out. I doubt if the whole island is magnetic that would just be silly, we have heard that the island has the largest number of wild Koala's for the area.
This afternoon was taken up ...

We pulled for a one nighter in Townsville, then we were heading down the coast to Brisbane, We went through Ayr and for those that don't know we lived about 10 miles from Ayr when we stayed in Scotland.
We pulled in to few places on the way including Airlie Beach which was very nice. As we think we will be settling this side of the big country we ...

... functioning toilet situation and the damage caused by the ridiculous Daintree sign. Had to wait ages again (today was a day of waiting as it transpired) and eventually got sorted out. Campervan man was sympathetic, but non-committal. They have taken A$1500 from our credit card for the damage and we will have to contact them in a few days time to find out how much they are actually charging us. On top of that we have had to pay A$75 for an estimate for ...

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 ...

Day 2

Up super early (5am) Simon and I had coffee and made some breakfast before waking the kids. All kids up and dressed by 6am. on the Road by 6:15am. Stopped in Mackay around 11 for coffee with Narelle but alas her power was off so cordial it was :) Poor Jacob wasn't well this day. high temps and just moserable

Stopped in Bowen to ...

Townsville   29 May 2009 - 5 June 2009

Arrived in Townsville
on 29th May and I immediately managed to get us lost - a new by-pass
road had been recently finished and wasn't on my map.  Darn - knew we should have just listened to her on the GPS!  She sometimes doesn't know all the
roads though so you can never be quite sure!!!  Anyway we got here in the end.

Steve had another
tricky spot to get into at the camp site ...

... br>
As a result 2 of our 3 accommodation choices were closed (!), with no sign of life whatsoever.

There were also no places open to buy or eat food, so it was lucky we had some stuff in our trusty Eskie.

Townsville, Australia al_fey

... 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
Efter aftensmaden gruisede vi ellers bare ...