Best Western Castle Lodge Mtl Townsville

... blog writing, washing and in LJ's case sleeping, been giving her lots of drugs and hopefully she'll feel better soon. We headed into town for some food tonight as we passed a Mexican Bar that had a special on a Tuesday, all you can eat Chilli for $10. It was really tasty as well but sadly I only managed 1 plateful as I had to finish LJ's dinner as well, think her stomach is shrinking because I normally end up eating hers as well which I ...

... keeping these areas for holidays! We had to pull in at a free camp, with a massive area for the kids to run wild for an hour or two before dinner.

The next day we were heading for Bundaberg, we had been told that it was a good place to live so thought it was worth a look. It was ok but i don't think we will be living there so we were off again.

... I enjoyed wandering flinders street mall well what's left of it - lot's of shops shut down for refurbishment. Denzel even accomodated me and slept for most of the time while I got my retail therapy. After the bus back and Jeremy picking up the car and the computer screen getting fixed (one of the reason's this has been a bit late ...

... easily see 6m at times which was awesome!

During our ocean dives we saw some cool stuff; a sucker fish (which confused one of the girls for a whale ;) ), lion fish, Sgt Majors, Damsel fish (who we fed) and lots and lots of coral.

We were meant to stay in dorms for our last two nights but couldn't handle slumming it any longer so we upgraded to an ocean view room with en suite which was a lot nicer but still not worth the ...

... briefly with Cousin Dan. then we went to Ayr to See Annu and Andreas. Finally got to Townsville 5:30pm. Was a very long boring trip. the kids weren't on thier best behaviour that day but it was long.. Isaac also started to get his dizzies

Day 3

up reasonably early as the kids were all excited to be spending the day with thier ...

... Dirk ist dann noch mal zurück, während ich schon zum Auto gegangen bin. Mir hat eine Schnitte und zwei Kiwis g**eicht. Ich fing dann schon mal an, meine Fotos auf den Laptop zu spielen und als Dirk kam, sind wir zum Castle Hill gefahren. Castle Hill ist ein 300m hoh** rötlich gefärbt** Felsen, d** Townsvilles Skyline prägt und d** eine spektakuläre Aussicht auf die Stadt und die Cleveland Bay bietet. Anschließend hat Dirk dann die zwei Häfen angefahren, von denen die Fähren von ...

... desk (thank God we stop at a big enough stop that has a Greyhound desk!) and ask them to phone up the cafe... but they haven't found anything.... and that is when I realise that a lot more is missing from my bag.... my passeport, my camera.... and it hits me: I was robbed on the bus!!... but it is too late, everyone has now left the bus...

So here I am, in the middle of ghost town Townsville (a very very weird town), on my own, with no money, no credit/debit card, no phone ...

... was hands on where we held a saltwater croc, endangered black cockatoos, blue tongue lizards, and a python. Koala holding was extra. We visited the beach at Horseshoe Bay that had a small town consisting of a couple stores, bars, and a couple takeaway cafes. Koala Rant: If ever there was an animal that deserves to be punched in the face, it is the ...

... the bays, but that's ok (although sometimes you've got to wait very long...). They've also got this small cars called 'Mini Moke' which you can see a lot here, but we didn't use that at all, although we could rent one from our guest house. So what did we do the last days? What happened until now? Not much. And that's also really new for me, but it's good. Oh yes! Well, the other three planned to do a diving course in a nearby diving school, and that started already on the day ...

... cookers!

It was a joke, but we were only having soup & bread so we thought it would be ok.

15 minutes later I was going off my rocker, as my soup STILL hadn't reached boiling point, at full heat on the one ...