Whilst I have us at Townsville, in fact we are staying at Black River which is about 25 k’s north east of Townsville at the Black River Stadium Caravan Park. It’s a rather unique park, in its only for over 50’s, so it really caters for the Grey Nomads. Each night there is happy hour in the camp kitchen and tonight (Friday) was pizza night. Also there was a quick competition that yours truly won with skill and overall talent!

It was amazing after so many weeks in the lush green rainforests of FNQ, to find ourselves back into the dry barren country side here in Townsville. It seem to happen all with about 20 k’s just south of Cardwell. One moment were in rainforest country and its poring rain then very quickly the rain stops and its dry and brown. Feels very much like we are back in central QLD again.

With Andrew and Sue we ventured into the Townsville CBD for a look around and it would have to be one of the most confusing towns we have been too on this trip. Normally you get a feel for a town and a sense of direction but Townsville is not one of them. I think the town planner was dyslexic because there seemed no structure to the road . system in the city area. Then people probably say the same about Melbourne but that’s 5 million plus population compared to 160 K.

We managed to have a quick bite to eat along the Strand and then up Castle Hill lookout for a view over the Townsville area. A bit of shopping and driving around , saw the day out before heading back for “Pizza night”.