Sunday 27th May 2012 - Townsville

We awoke to a brighter sky and enjoyed a BBQ breakie. As we were cooking the kids spied a green tree snake above the BBQ keeping warm out of the weather no doubt, above us. It didn't move the whole time we were there.

It was high up in the rafters above the BBQ.

We drove on into Townsville and dropped off the trailer at a caravan park on the water before doing a little exploring.

We went up to Castle Hill which was a high hill in the middle of Townsville which had excellent views of the whole town and surrounds. Some mad people were even running up it! We enjoyed Lunch with a view there. We also drove along 'The Strand' which is basically the foreshore. There were several playgrounds which the kids enjoyed and filtered swimming areas (stinger free apparently!) which we didn't use as it was still a little too cold.

The kids were given the option of going to Reef HQ or the Museum. They chose Reef HQ which was a smaller version of AQUA. THe kids had fun and we also got to look at the Turtle Hospital where sick and injured turtles are cared for and released back into the wild. That was interesting to see.

Olivia diving on the reef!

The late afternoon was spent washing and doing school work as we had good internet coverage so we got to do some Mathletics and Spellodrome. The kids were a bit ratty so it was a bit of a chore, too many 1 nighters I think! Ed and I got everything ready to hit the road again tomorrow.