Townsville Travel Blogs

I had travelled to Townsville twice before once when I was 8 for a swimming carnival (which I can’t remember) and the last time was in the early 90’s with some friends for a long weekend (which consisted mostly of driving at night – over 800 kilometres from Rockhampton to Townsville). The…

The next day we went for a drive into town, to The Strand. We had been told there was a really nice lagoon just beside the beach to swim in, and we thought that might be a good idea as there are poisonous stingers (jellyfish) around this time of year. Unfortunately they had had some problems with a…

Nachdem ich in der Früh alle meine Sachen gepackt habe, hatte ich noch ein wenig Zeit, bis mich der Bus von Horseshoe Bay nach Nelly Bay abgeholt hat, also bin ich zum Strand spaziert und habe mir Frühstück besorgt - dort ist es weit billiger als im Hostel. Zurück im Hostel habe ich noch eine T…

Certainly a state befitting a Queen. This place has everything! A must see destination for everyone on the planet....

Pictures and blogs of my Work & Travel year in beautiful Australia!

With only really daylight hours to explore Queensland's third biggest city, we thought the best plan of attack would be to get up high and survey the lot from above. Perfect for this is Castle Hill, a 300-metre tall towering hill overlooking Townsville and Magnetic Island across the bay, where we w…

Watten Spaß!!! Family time!!!

We woke up early the next morning to catch the ferry back to Townsville. I tried my camera again... still nothing.   After cruising back to shore, we headed downtown to shop for a while. We were also going to look for a place that might fix my camera. We stopped at every camera shop with no …

It was very sad leaving our farm stay this morning. The family was so great to us. We drove a couple hours to Townsville. There we visited the Billabong Animal Sanctuary. Right when we walked in there was a huge kangaroo with a joey in her pouch just hopping around the place. She wasn’t even in a…

Australia III - This time we started in Brisbane, took a flight up North to Darwin, went on a 4day Kakadu Nat Park 4WD Tour, took another flight to Cairns and from there we rented a camper to travel back down South to Brisbane. Will we ever make it.?

Well...bit of an update. I did indeed spend a day visiting the rainforest which I really enjoyed. We saw some ridiculously huge strangler fig trees, one of which used to have an aboriginal family living inside it. I met up with Dez from TravBuddy who turned out to be staying at the same hostel and …

After a couple of days of goodbyes I'm now feeling a little anxious and sad at the thought of leaving all the great friends that I have made over the last two years. Shane and I are heading to Arlie Beach today - not the longest of legs- so I can head out to the Gread Barrier Reef  one more ti…

Photos and travels from around Australia.

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