Our last night at Airlie Beach, Motley1 got the guitar out.  He is improving but not quite busker standard yet.  We went for a drive out to Shute Harbour where all the tours to the reef leave from. Very pretty.
Travelling up the Bruce Highway, we crossed the Burdekin Bridge which is more than 1 kilometre long.  Very impressive as are the mountains which surround you as you drive.  I was surprised by this as I don’t know what I expected up here but it certainly wasn’t mountains.
We arrived in Townsville, booked into the park and went for a drive around.
There is a huge waterfall just outside the middle of town which is lit up at night and looks pretty spectacular.
There are houses at the top of the hill and they have a great view out to Magnetic Island.
Townsville is a huge spread out town overlooked by this hill, called Castle Hill, and we went for a drive up there.  Here you can see just one view of the town which shows how big the place is.
This is Flinders Street, I’m sure you would never get a picture of Melbourne’s Flinders Street with this little traffic.
We visited the NQ Museum and Motley1 fearlessly turned his back on this inhabitant.
We really liked this little gazebo to be found near the Garden of Remembrance in the park.

Yesterday we went down to Giru to see about a job packing zuchinni.  We had a tour around the place and saw how they sort and pack mangoes and zuchinni and are hopeful that we will pick up some work here.

On the way back we checked out an Eco Caravan park, to find that in this instance Eco stands for “Dump”.  I don’t know that I would want to stay there even if we did find work and that means longer travelling every day.
One thing they did have in abundance was wildlife like these kangaroos complete with Joey in the pouch wandering around.

We have the Strand market tomorrow night until 10.00pm and then the Cotters Market in Flinders Mall on Sunday ..so we hope they will be really good markets.

Until next time..