Day 198 - Joanna's Birthday
We went to church in Airlie beach in the morning, this is quite unusual in the fact that they average around 20% of the congregation being visitors and tourists to the area. After church we went for another wander around Airlie beach on a lunch hunt to celebrate Joanna's birthday. We chose to have a Pizza, Joanna had a prawn pizza and I had a glazed chicken pizza, these were lovely and set us up for the afternoon ahead.
We then drove to Bowen and had a walk along the jetty, while on the jetty I tried to take some artistic photographs, we then spent some time watching the invertebrates in the mud.
The pier
Art on the peir
Mud Crabs?
We then went to a couple of other view points in the town
In the evening we headed to a lovely campsite at Home Hill, and could see and hear a controlled burn taking place nearby.
Day 199
We started the morning having a swim in the 50m pool next to the campsite, completing 700m. We started out drive to Townsville, stopping off at Ayr on the way for a walk around.
The drive involved a photogenic bridge
And a sugar cane train
Apart from the odd building Ayr was hot and relatively unremarkable
Although Holden and John Deere do have neighboring showrooms
We arrived in Townsville and had a wander along the main street before heading to a look out, this has good views but it had got far to hot. We retreated to a campsite and enjoyed the swimming pool, hot tub and wallaby feeding.
Townsville
Look out
Feeding time for the wallabies, we think the pouched joey got the best deal.
Till next time
David & Joanna
