Quest Townsville

This will be our diary of our journey to and adventure around Australia. This may be the only chance we get to do this so we will pack as much into our 5 weeks as we can. Along the way we have promised to buy a didgeridoo for Jordan (our ...

My brutally honest travels and life experiences in the South Pacific.

Wednesday 18 March, 9.52pm, Quest Townsville   Welcome to Townsville, the most ridiculously-named place in Australia, according to Noj! Only it's more like farewell to Townsville, as I move on to Cairns in the morning. Let me catch you ...

... ; Chuffing crikey was it welcome, even if I was nodding off in Sam's bar by the early hours. I can only apologise to Townsville and Australia as a whole for not running through my full repertoire of dance shapes. We had intended to visit nearby Magnetic ...

We were lucky enough to get our train tickets only the trainline was down, due to the cyclone, between Cairns and Townsville. This meant we had a connecting 6 hour coach ride to Townsville, a 3 hour train ride to Proserpine (the nearest railway station to ...

... di godere di una esperienza ferroviaria ai Tropici. Poi a solo una piacevole crociera di 25 minuti attraverso dala baia da Townsville per l'isola. Quando il capitano Cook scoprà  l'isola nel 1770, ha creduto che l'isola aveva una forza ...

... ear checked out (yep, Ear Infection from all that swimming) and a good shop at Woolies we headed further East on our quest to reach Townsville. After a brief play in Richmond to ease the kids boredom we ended up parking the van half way between no-where ...

... Apparently the trip is just as good from there. So we decided to make the most of a wasted afternoon and make our way down to Townsville. It took us 4.5 hours and just as we got here it stopped raining. We managed to find a hotel, had an explore, ate ...