Townsville to Ingham

This morning we bade farewell to Townsville. How we will miss the sound of traffic, trains, cars/trucks and most of all the RAAF Super Hornets. It was not that bad but fairly constant particularly the land based vehicles.

We packed up quite quickly and then we made our way to the Caltex-Woolworths fuel outlet at Deeragun on the Bruce Highway. We refueled at about 141.9 cents per litre.  The Mazda is still producing good figures even at slightly higher road speed.

After rejoining the Bruce Highway we traveled for about 3/4 of an hour to the Frost Mango. I had stopped here last year and knew what was available. However, the cappuccinos left a fair bit to be desired but not the worst. We had some toast with mango jam. Before we left we bought several containers of mango ice cream.

There was only a short distance to Ingham left. As we moved closer we noticed a lot of damage to the trees and some houses that are undoubtedly a legacy of Cyclone Yasi.  Big trees destroyed and knocked over and still some buildings covered by tarpaulins. I suspect we will see worse over the next few days as we move more into the centre of the cyclone impact area.

Soon we arrived at the Palm Tree Caravan Park. It was nice to be recognised and again made welcome by Craig, Kate and their son Sam. They are probably the friendliest park owners we have come across. They were into farming in the Clermont area, near Emerald, so that may be why.

We then set up and had our lunch. After lunch a quick trip into the town to get a few items.

Then we settled down to watch the Wallabies lose their first international Rugby game for the year to Samoa. It can only get better however Samoa is a very good team.