We head towards Townsville and stay at a
simple block of land along Bruce Highway, which is being developed into a
caravan park. It’s not much, but then again, we don’t need much. All we really
need is to be close to Townsville. I want to take the children to the Tropical
Museum of Queensland, because it’s school holidays and they have all kinds of
activities for school children, related to dinosaurs. Can’t go wrong with that.
They even dress up a man wearing black jeans in a life-size dinosaur costume.
It is great to see a museum packed with children, and they are all grabbed by
this dinosaur appearance.
There is more though: art work, dinosaur masks, a dig
pit and a temporary exhibition of stuffed animals like a lion, tiger, cheetah,
bears and lots of deer.
The permanent exhibition at the top floor
is also very well set up for children as well as adults. There is even a
workshop pretending we hatch our own dinosaur from DNA extracted from mosquito
blood. Sounds familiar?
We spend hours.
What will we do with the rest of the
afternoon? It’s very hot. Let’s find a splash zone play ground. There happens
to be one on the Strand. Who cares we didn’t bring swimming gear and towels?
Certainly not the kids.
We can tell looking at the wind and waves
that a trip to Magnetic island to do some snorkeling is likely to be
unsuccessful because of the South Easterly winds. The water looks murky and muddy. A quick
phone call to Townville’s information centre confirms our suspicion, so now we
don’t have to go there! Bit of a relief. I was going to put the whole family
with snorkeling gear and our car on a ferry to the island, do an island walk
and snorkel, but now we don’t have to do any of that.
More time for us to go shopping. We need
some more stinger-suits for our time on the Whitsunday Islands, we need more
fishing gear of course and some other
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