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Australia
Whenever you mention overseas that you are from Australia, people think “the opera house, skippy and the beaches” but Australia is not only that, Australia is the bush, the outback, the country people, and its wild life and lots more. Ten years ago we joined one of the best four wheel drive club in the country. Being members of the Subaru Club, we have met exceptional people, whom we consider our second family; we learnt how to go camping, four wheel driving and more, now is time to put our skills to the test. We will be travelling to the rainforest, the outback, the world famous great barrier reef, we will go through some remote areas with rugged terrain, we’ll see lots of wild life including the legendary salt water crocodile, furthermore the famous road trains, they are 53 metres long, of course meet the country people, we will be visiting cattle stations; one of them is one and a half million acres and obviously we will be going to a lot of country pubs so we can enjoy a coldie while we meet some of the locals and some adventurous travellers, we are very excited and cannot wait longer to “Go and See Australia”......well...part of it.

28 June 2010

Airlie Beach to Townsville, Queensland

Driving up north from Airlie Beach we stopped at Bowen, North Queensland's oldest town and the place of the "Big Mango". It was declared a town back in 1861 its history predates that many years aboriginal people inhabited this region long before the first white settlers.
Bowen is widely known for its murals they are displayed throughout the streets. We could not take photos because the camera ran out of battery.
Furthermore some shots of the movie Australia were filmed in the local pub and a building used by the Queensland government.
As usual we found the local bakery; we had a very nice coffee and a cake, bought some Jackman's special pies, bread for dinner and continued our trip to Townsville.
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Bowen



We arrived to Townsville, after setting-up at the caravan park we went to explore the place.
The Strand is along the shore line it is a very busy place with restaurants and a very nice park right on the beach and a large rock pool which looks more as a swimming pool.
Located in the middle of the city is a large mount with 360 degree views of Townsville and the ocean.
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Townsville


We put the truck on the ferry and went to Magnetic Island it is a popular destination; you can take your car or hire a "topless car" or a "mini moke" to move around the island. There are more than 20 bays and beaches around the island with good places for swimming or snorkelling. More than 60% of the island is a national park with a great variety of wildlife; we found some "black tail rock wallabies"
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Magnetic Island


Kilometres travelled up to date 3349 km
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4 comments:

  1. BrettJune 29, 2010 at 8:54 AM

    Hi,
    Looks like you are having a wonderful time up there while we freeze down here in Sydney. Are you sure you don't want to come back and share in the frost? ha ha
    Have a great trip.
    Brett

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  2. Aussie TravelersJune 29, 2010 at 8:40 PM

    Hi Brett,
    Nice to hear from you, hopefully we get more comments like yours, we reached Cairns today and met with Brett, Malcolm and Peter. Thank you for not thank you, we prefer this lovely 28 degree weather....Looking forward for the Cape York adventure....
    Cheers

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  3. vjJune 30, 2010 at 8:58 AM

    Hola!!!!!!! The trip looks awesome, what a great plan!!!!

    I can't wait to finish and actually get to know outside Sydney Dental Hospital.

    Disfruten mucho y tomen fotos (nunca serán demasiadas)

    Saludos

    Vanessa

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  4. Aussie TravelersJuly 3, 2010 at 12:03 AM

    Hola Vanessa,
    Very soon you will have the opportunity to visit beautiful places like the ones we have been, we hope our trip encourage you to do a trip like ours.
    Saludos

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