1st September – Tuesday
It’s spring time!
We have decided not to stay at Woodlands Caravan Park, Townsville, on future trips. The mosquitoes were horrendous, we were beside the highway which had trucks and cars going all night, and also discovered we were beside the train line as well. Of course, there were trains all night too! We were watching the early Today Show at 5.00 am and were hooked up and heading to Charters Towers at 7.30am!!!
Poor TomTom was very upset this morning as a new bypass motorway has been built around Townsville and no one bothered to tell her. Had to turn her off finally. The new road was marvellous as it meant missing the centre of Townsville during rush hour and cut both time and distance from our journey.
Today we were definitely back to dry tropics and road trains – as well as an idiot learner driver who will definitely be a dead driver before much longer! We arrived at Charters Towers shortly after 9.30 am and were set up and having coffer not long after 10.00 am. We are at the Aussie Outback Oasis Caravan Park – very friendly staff, very large drive through sites and very friendly ants! There is also the most wonderful camp kitchen made out of old bits of farm implements and tins and stuff.
We had a wander around the centre of Charters Towers this morning – this old gold mining town has retained its heritage and character and really is charming. There is also a lovely park and lots of schools, being the boarding school centre for a large area of the outback and towards the Gulf.
It’s spring time!
We have decided not to stay at Woodlands Caravan Park, Townsville, on future trips. The mosquitoes were horrendous, we were beside the highway which had trucks and cars going all night, and also discovered we were beside the train line as well. Of course, there were trains all night too! We were watching the early Today Show at 5.00 am and were hooked up and heading to Charters Towers at 7.30am!!!
Poor TomTom was very upset this morning as a new bypass motorway has been built around Townsville and no one bothered to tell her. Had to turn her off finally. The new road was marvellous as it meant missing the centre of Townsville during rush hour and cut both time and distance from our journey.
Today we were definitely back to dry tropics and road trains – as well as an idiot learner driver who will definitely be a dead driver before much longer! We arrived at Charters Towers shortly after 9.30 am and were set up and having coffer not long after 10.00 am. We are at the Aussie Outback Oasis Caravan Park – very friendly staff, very large drive through sites and very friendly ants! There is also the most wonderful camp kitchen made out of old bits of farm implements and tins and stuff.
We had a wander around the centre of Charters Towers this morning – this old gold mining town has retained its heritage and character and really is charming. There is also a lovely park and lots of schools, being the boarding school centre for a large area of the outback and towards the Gulf.
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