Monthly archives: August 2019

Bargara Brewing We spent a most excellent Saturday evening at Bargara Brewing, such a wide range of beers that i could not have a pint of all of them. Think i managed seven or so. Drunk – Fish Pale, Red Roo Irish Ale, Ray XPA, Hop Chief American IPA, now its getting fuzzy there was […]

Bust 3 days in this area, plenty to do and see and even without hitting the beach or the pub we had a very full 3 days. Also had a great fresh cooked prawn roll from a van next to the tourist information centre in Yeppoon. Yeppoon Yeppoon is a great little town with a […]

Pie The long time leader the Red Bluff Bakery in Kalbarri has finally been been beaten by the Pinnacle Pub who served a delicious Steak and Kidney pie complete with chips, gravy and mushy peas. Just the right amount of Steak and Kidney, in the perfect 2:1 ratio, to balance the crisp on the outside […]

Mackay is a fairy typical small rural city which has had its city centre ruined by the advent of Shopping Malls out of town. They have not yet regenerated the City Centre into a entertainment hub like Townsville. Here’s hoping they do soon. We went up into the hills to Eungella National park to see […]

Bowen is a great agricultural town with superb beaches great cheap campsites and it has a giant Mango. What more do you need? and best of all you can snorkel the Great Barrier reef for free from the Beach at Horseshoe bay. Just walk out 30m and start swimming when you pass the metal sculpture […]

Charters Towers is a town in northern Queensland, Australia. It is 134 kilometres (83 mi) inland (south-west) from Townsville on the Flinders Highway. In 2016 the population was 8,120 people. During the last quarter of the 19th century the town boomed as the rich gold deposits under the city were developed. After becoming uneconomic in […]

Mission Beach is a small coastal town and locality in the Cassowary Coast Region, Queensland, Australia.[2][3] In the 2016 census Mission Beach and surrounding villages had a total population of 3,597 people. The wettest place in Australia and it lived up to its name 3 days solid of rain. According to the locals it has […]

Townsvilles version of Rotnest but with Koalas instead of Quokas, not sure who wins the cuteness competition. Magnetic Island is an island 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) offshore from the city of Townsville, Queensland, Australia. This 52 km2 (20.1 sq mi) mountainous island in Cleveland Bay has effectively become a suburb of Townsville, with 2,107 permanent […]

Time to stay still for a few days after the long haul from NT and for Jools to get her shopping fix that she has been craving since Karatha, she was delighted to find a Kmart and a Reject shop. Townsville is a city on the north-eastern coast of Queensland, Australia. Townsville is Australia’s largest […]

The town was named after the niece of Donald McIntyre (younger brother of Duncan McIntyre), the first white settler in the area. McIntyre took up a property called Dalgonally about 70 kilometres (43 mi) north of the present site of the town in 1864, only a few years after the ill-fated Burke and Wills expedition […]