Terrific Townsville

'Neat Queenslanders – both houses and residents – inhabit this upwardly mobile city straddling the coast and the outback. Even with its sprinkling of cosmopolitan cafés and boutiques, Townsville still feels like a big country town surrounded by pink hills from which sky-high sunsets plunge into a scaled-down Riviera dotted with water craft.'

Lonley Planet, Townsville

We flew to Townsville to see my family and to attend a friend's wedding. It was wonderful catching up with friends at the wedding!

With Louy and Lisa

Terry and Jenny

Paula and Charles during the cermony

Louy and Liam

Louy was impressed by the food!

Not as drunk as we look given it was a lunch time wedding.

They say in Queensland it is beautiful one day and perfect the next but we were glad it rained for a couple of days to cool things down. We still managed to get out of the house for a walk.

Dad was worried about cars seeing us and gave me his rain jacket!

After many catch ups over food we decided walking would be a good idea.

We took a long walk along The Strand.

We also walked down to 'Riverways' to meet friends for morning tea and enjoyed the shade on offer.

We helped mum place an ad on Gumtree to sell dad's lawn bowls.

Nick thought this photo would attract the buyers!

We still had not worked out a way to get to Lismore for our house sitting stint so we went to Magnetic Island for the day to look at a van that we liked on Gumtree.