We left Charters Towers and drove towards Townsville, noticing the landscape changing as we got nearer to Townsville. The forest and countryside was becoming green, something we hadn't seen a lot of in the inland places. We found Townsville huge, it takes a good 40 minutes to traverse the city, ring roads everywhere. Parts of Townsville can be pretty ordinary and uninteresting, but there are nice parks and green areas, and an area on the beach called the Strand. This has had a lot of work applied to it, to enhance its image and amenities. Directly across the water is Magnetic Island. We had the most delicious gelato ice-cream down there, I would have loved to go back for more, but we didn't.
Sunday morning saw us at North Reach Baptist Church, a very good church with good teaching. I met a lady a bit older than me at morning tea and she invited us home for lunch. After a lot of conversation, we realised that our mutual parents had been good friends. Small world.......
Castle Hill is in the middle of Townsville and is surrounded by the town. Many athletes train by running up there and we encountered many on our way up. Of interest was an athlete cooling station, a horizontal pole emitting a fine water vapour, which I am sure would go down a treat after running up the mountain. There would have been easily a hundred people going up and down. We had bought a new camera that day, so it got a workout up there.
We left Townsville on Monday morning (5th August), heading north.
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| A view of Townsville Harbour/Port |
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| Townsville from Castle Hill, one view of many |
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| Another View |
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| A monument on Castle Hill |
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| From Castle Hill |
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