TREBS hit Townsville

We hit the Bruce Highway (100 metres from where we spent the night) and travelled 2 hours through sugar cane country to Townsville. We went straight to the Reef HQ to catch some great aquarium action. With the biggest coral aquarium in the world and a huge predator tank full of sharks we were quite happily entertained for a few hours. The icing on the cake was visiting the turtle hospital which had 3 in-patients with various injuries. The sickest one had been hit by a boats propellor and the other two were recovering from bacterial infections. Townsville has a large grassed, park like area along its waterfront with pools, playgrounds and heaps of grassy areas for picnicking. We chose the end of the bay, which had a huge salt water pool and playground, to spend a couple of hours in the 25 degree, blue sky day. Late afternoon we checked into a camping ground for the night and packed up a few things in preparation for our week on Magnetic Island. p.s Rosa did a fantastic job preparing dinner tonight!