We got up early and headed into Townsville, booking in at the Big 4 Walkabout Palms. We set up and then headed to Anaconda to check out the wetsuits. Darren and Mitch both found wetsuits that fitted, and we bought a new chair for Darren for Fathers’ Day. The boys both had a go at the climbing wall and Thomas once again conquered the wall. Mitch made it to the top of the one that he was attempting and was pretty pleased with himself. Then we went back to the caravan for lunch.
After lunch we decided to explore Townsville. We drove into the Esplanade and stopped at the man-made swimming lagoon where we dipped our toes and the boys had a few goes on the flying fox,
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| View of Magnetic Island from Castle hill |
back in the car we then drove up to Castle hill where we were amazed at the amount of people that were walking or running up the very steep 3km road. Once at the top there were 4 or more short walking tracks to different lookout points where a lot of these fitness freaks were doing stride throughs up the steps, sit-ups or some type of exercise. It made us puffed just watching them! We took in the scenery from these vantage points as well as a few pics. We then drove back to the esplanade and stopped at the tourist info to get some ideas for the next day or 2 from there we went to the local fishing tackle shop to enquire about charters and some local land based spots, leaving with plenty of ideas we then headed to the van via the supermarket and had tea then off to bed.
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