Judy & Brian Tour Oz

I godda cold. Rats. Last day on Magnetic Island a bit of a blur. I did manage to have a swim at Rocky Bat which was lovely. Then before you know it, you’re back on the boat and back in Townsville. We went to the Maritime Museum, but nearly didn’t make it past the front door. The man in charge was obnoxious, gave us a hard time because we asked for the seniors discount. He then went on to whinge about all us seniors coming there and getting a $1 (yes all this for one dollar) off the entry price, even opened the ledger and started counting us! All we could do not to mention that if ‘we’ all stopped coming he’d be out of a job, because 90% of the entries were us old farts. He was the genuine PITA. I later made the mistake of asking when they were going to get the Townsville moved down the river to give their collection some real attraction. Boy oh boy, he went of like a Roman candle citing the $26000 a year for insurance and the kids would put graffiti all over it and of yes the...

Fairly pleasant sort of run, despite the multiple road works and truck drivers, who would run everyone else off the road, down the Bruce Highway to Townsville. The caravan park is in the most peculiar place behind a service station on the corner of two main roads. Let's see how noisy it is tonight. It is a bit higgeldy piggeldy with lots of cabins, but has a nice, warmish pool, so all is forgiven. Went down town to book the car ferry to Magnetic Island and a couple of nights in a hotel - a bit of a splurge. Heading over on the 9am ferry tomorrow.. Drove around to ‘The Strand’ and had a glass of wine in our most favourite restaurant out over the water (we had lunch there 9 years ago!). Had to make the obligatory drive up to the top of ‘The Hill’, weaving in and out between the hoards of health freaks running and walking their way up. It's 2.9kms straight up and there are a lot of red faces, sweaty t-shirts, people standing under the water misters as well as those doing ...