Townsville
We arrived at Townsville yesterday. We have booked into a lovely caravan park which is about 10 minutes out of Townsville. The sites are really large and spacious and the park is very quiet. It is aimed at over 50s … so we feel like the kids here … with the average age of everyone else being 70+. They do have a lovely heated swimming pool so after setting up camp we went for a swim / spa. The advantage of being the youngest campers on site is that we could go for a swim around 6pm when it was dinner time for everyone else so we had the pool to ourselves.
Today we headed into town for the reminiscing tour. Darryl spent a few of his teenage years in Townsville so we went and saw the house where they lived, the school, Boys Brigade church etc. He enjoyed remembering some of the fun times.
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| House at Cavendish Street, Pimlico (where Darryl spent some of his teenage years) |
We continued the reminiscing by visiting the street where Merril’s mother grew up.
We then went to the Reef HQ Great Barrier Reef Aquarium. It was an excellent display of beautiful colourful reef fish and coral – including some crocodiles and turtles. We felt like we finally saw some of the Great Barrier Reef! The glass bottom boat on Green Island was good but the aquarium was a great opportunity to see the coral and fish in all there splendour! Hey Isaiah - we even saw Nemo and Dory!
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| Nemo hiding in the coral |
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| This crocodile did not like having his photo taken! |
We also drove around The Strand and other general tourist drives. They have really made the most of the foreshore at the Strand by preserving old buildings combined with pleasant streetscaping – including lots of green spaces which is a bit like a larger version of Brisbane Southbank.
Tomorrow we are off to Magnetic Island. We have heard reports that it could be getting windy – so hopefully the boat trip won’t be too rough.
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