Greg's Photos

Below are a some photos from the 4-day holiday that Toni & I spent visiting Toni's sister Barbara, husband Graham & family in Townsville in late June.

Magnetic Island

Horseshoe Bay

Alma Bay

View from high above Arcadia & Alma Bay

Toni captured between taking photos

A 'Queenslander' style house in the Arcadia area

View from the ferry as we left Nelly Bay by ferry in the late afternoon

Reef HQ Aquarium & Museum of Tropical Queensland, in Townsville

Sea turtle in a pond in the Aquarium hospital

Coral reef

Model of the hull of HMS Pandora, the Royal Navy warship dispatched in 1790 to the
South Pacific in pursuit of the infamous Bounty mutineers. The ship was wrecked on the
Great Barrier Reef off Far North Queensland in 1791 after recapturing some of the mutineers
in Tahiti. The shipwreck was discovered 1977 and the museum contains many items recovered
in the archeological work.

Charters Towers

Charters Towers streetscape

Old bank building

Old Hotel Royal

View of town from hill where mines were located

Burdekin River crossing

Toni & Barbara near the shore of the Burdekin River not far from the Macrossan Bridge

View of the Macrossan Bridge which is 13.4m above the water - the massive volume of water that can flow through here is indicated by a sign giving historical flood levels: in 2009 the river reached 20.75m (ie, more than 7 metres above the bridge level !) while the highest level was reached in a 1949 flood at 21.79m above the water level

Townsville from afar

View of Townsville from Mt Stuart to the west, showing Castle Hill
(near the city centre - see photo further below) and Magnetic Island in the background

Bushland Beach