The Beach House Motel Townsville

... lights, roundabouts and a big population.



Townsville has certainly grown over the years and now has a population of 175 000 and it seems that most of them are fitness junkies. Judy and Rowan included. Rowan has lost 20 kg and Jude has lost some too. It is quite a shock to come back to a household that has to get up early in the morning to go to work, come home have ...

... pool, only splashing out on a cold rock ice-cream between us.

Our neighbour at Blue Waters had a generator and offered to let us top up our power supply, which we readily accepted as we’d been in free camps since Pussy Cat Flats some 6 days earlier.

It was then I decided to see if I could reboot the computer. I noticed that it began working and we both realised that we had only had a ...

... chocolate so mum you need to stock up please - green tea ants just are not the same as a lovely double decker!! With regards to koala bowels the minute the koala went to Emma it began to poo - we think there may be a theme!!! We hope everyone is well and miss you and love you all lots!! Much love, Em and Ben xxx PS Thank you to the parents - The Howards for getting to cut the grass and to the Daileys for almost cutting the grass - we love you all!!! xxx

... past the Big Mango, (but does it count as a proper Big sighting as we saw it in the failing light and didn’t even stop to look at it properly), which is located near Bowen. The journey got more interesting as Paul got stopped by Five – 0 (or for non Wire viewers, the Police) for speeding. He was doing 117km on a 100km road. This is the main road, the Bruce Highway, which runs all along the Eastern coast of Australia. At bit like the M1 but ...

... 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 foreshore is magnificant, and its spread out the same as Newcastle but is much nicer to look at and much easier traffic wise.

We are sitting in the Kombi now feeling very fat, after checking out one of Queensland icons - Sizzler! John is patting ...

... drawcard for visitors. Also within reach are Orpheus, Hinchinbrook, Dunk and Bedarra Islands. Inland, the historic goldmining towns of Charters Towers and Ravenswood make a fascinating day trip or overnight stay.

The Strand is the favourite beachfront leisure spot for locals and visitors with four ...

... von d** JCU (James Cook Univ**sity) beigesteu**t, die damals meine zweite Option neben d** QUT gewesen wäre. Wir nahmen an Führungen teil, die alle sehr int**essant waren. Die **ste üb** Korallen und die Z**störung dies**, die zweite war eine Dive Show, in d** ein Tauch** in einem großen Aquarium tauchte und durch seine Spezialmaske mit uns redete und **klärte, die dritte Tour war dann üb** gefährliche Kreaturen. Hi** muss ich sagen, habe ich einige wohl sehr wichtige Dinge ...

... girlfriend Sarah. Their house is really nice, and the view over the town is pretty amazing. We sat out there for a while and had a really good roast dinner. very nice to have a good home cooked meal! we wandered down the beach front and had a proper nice ice cream after that. was a cool evening and really nice to talk to Rosemary and everyone else.

the next day rosemary took me on a tour of the town ...

... first night decided to tag along unfortunately he was wearing flip flops so it he still nursing a number of blisters. I suppose it was 2 days ago now, but on my second full day on the island I decided to do another walk were there was supposed to be koalas, unfortunately there were none but again some pretty spectacular views. After that I went to go a little walk down to one of the beaches and get a bus back, unfortunately ...

... I've been caught in some pretty intense rainstorms over the years, from the edge of Texan hurricanes, to Japanese 'rainy seasons', and of course those Thai monsoons, but I don't think I've ever been underneath something this ...