Anyway, we filled in the days ok and there could be much worse places to be held up. Whilst at Parennela Park, we saw that the movie ‘Celeste’ was filmed there, so we decided to see that movie - Darryl rated it minus 3 - the story wasn’t his sort of movie - but seeing beautiful Parennela Park was worth it for me.
The waterfront along the Strand was fairly quiet but we enjoyed our walk along the seafront plus the drink at the restaurant. Unfortunately, we haven’t seen the sun and it hasn’t been swimming or snorkeling weather that I’d fancied doing on Magnetic Island.
We visited 3 botanic gardens yesterday and always marvel at the beautiful tropical plants - wishing they’d grow at home!
Last night we were in bed by 7.30 as it was very wet (they had 21mm here!) it was quite cool and our annex’s weren’t very inviting. Darryl watched the footy (good old Kangaroos!) and I read so we didn’t sleep for 12hrs!
Today we stocked up on supplies then drove to see the Ross River dam - a little underwhelming except for the little wallabies dotted everywhere amongst the rocks.
We undertook a very windy road up to the lookout at Mt Stuart and had a beautiful view of Townsville and area.
It’s hard to comprehend the devesatstion the recent floods caused when the 1 in a 100 rain event occurred earlier this year. One road we were going to travel on tomorrow is still closed - we assume a bridge over the Alice River hasn’t been repaired.
We hope to look around Charters Towers as before we just sailed through and we believe it’s a very pretty place. We have a week to get to Ipswich - hope you’ll have the sun shining there Rob and Rick as we’re sick of clouds! Mustn’t complain though as it’s not as cold as it is down south! Hope you’re all managing to keep warm.
Love from Marg, Darryl, Dennis & Tops. 😊😊😊😊
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