Thursday, July 7, 2011

Queensland holidays 2011. Day four

Day four

Sunday 19 June
Clermont to Townsville

Depart Clermont 8.28 am 8 degres

We drove to Belyando crossing for morning tea.
there was a lot of roadworks and
caravans and trucks. It took ages.
Drove to Charters towers for lunch.

 lot of lovely old buildings



We stopped at an old miner cottage to ask for
directions and we got a serenade.
The old guys were the guide for the cottage which
stood on an old gold mine.
 After a nice coffee we drove to a lookout.
We could see the whole area.
Then we wet for a walk to look at some ruins of
the place where they were extracting gold.
Only the chemneys and few walls left standing.

Townsville, our hotel
We went for a walk around South Townsville to
 the marinaand decided to go to an indian
restaurant for dinner.


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