28/09. After a hot and noisy night at Bilyanda we took off for Bushy Parker about 25km North of Townsville. Set up our camp quickly, and headed for the Bilabong for a refreshing swim. Last night was warm plus we had rain to cool things off. Walked up the road to the little town for a look and collected Mango's on the way back, cooled off again in the water. A big storm this arvo to cool us even more. 2/10. A bad night last night as campers nearby were partying, drinking and fighting. We moved on early and only traveled to Bluewater camp. hopefully we will have a better night tonight. No such luck there was a wedding on in the hall across road and the band played until the early hours next morning. 4/10. This is our 43rd stop so far on this trip. We are now in the Coral Coast Van Park at Townsville beside the Air force Base & not noisy at all, a good place to be as it is now very hot and we have a good pool to swim in, we are making the most of it at least 3/4 swims a day. haven't seen any yet but this park has a lot of Tree Snakes, as well as sightings of Pythons, Yellow and Red Belly Black's also Taipans, BLOODY HELL, San is not one bit impressed. Outta bed early to drive into Townsville to have a look at the Living Coral Reef Aquarium which holds 2.5 million litres of salt water, it amazing to see the colour and and the many fish types, its the world largest living coral reef. We now know what to expect to see when we travel to the Great Barrier Reef. 8/10. Today is our Danny's Birthday, happy birthday Dan. Neil and Lorraine rang to say they are catching Barra and Redclaw. Our Waeco Fridge is now repaired and we are on the move again this time to the Gunna Go C/V/P near Proserpine. Very clean amenities but old, good pool, the cater for back packers as well as the general public. Sugar Cane farms surround the park, and more bloody snakes as well, Browns, Taipans and Pythons we will have to be Very vigilant. We were told at night to take a torch when we go to the toilets just in case there is a brown snake behind the toilet bowl, we are almost Freaking out now. A good thing there is a licenced bar here, might as well get pissed and not worry to much.This park was caught in a cyclone earlier this year, there were 200km winds a lot of damage it even took paint of one of the Walls. 10/10/10. Temperature so cool now about 10deg cooler. Left this morning and going to Armstrong Beach via Sarina, almost there when the A frame on both sides snapped and bought our Ute to a sudden stop, a bit scary as we were on a bend in the road, the road condition is very bad we were lucky that we were only traveling about 70km/h, it could have been a lot worse, back on the highway out of Sarina we were driving to the speed limit 100km/h, a middle aged couple stopped to lend a hand, they stayed for 2 hours to direct traffic. It is just a waiting game now, insurance company and assessors have been contacted. Showers on and off overnight, Sandflies and Mozzies are very bad, have to light coils and put on insect spray, that is before we even go outside.
Three days after accident a tow truck has arrived to load the caravan and take it to Eaton about 80km from Armstrong Beach.
We are now back in Lake Macquarie and all is O.K. I had a Major Computer Crash and lost all information from Armstrong Beach to Home Base.
See Ya, back in 2011?
Sandy & John
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