Townsville. Stopped a couple of days and tripped around. Been here before and not many new places to see around town. Washed the car, swam in the pool, did a few walks at Pallarenda and The Strand and up to Castle Hill for a bit of a diversion.
Took a trip out of town to Rollingstone and Paluma Range Nation Park. Paluma is a small town up a very windy road. No facilities here, sticky buns or coffee. The average speed up the range would be below 40km/h as there are lots of blind corners and steep gradients. No place for a caravan! About half way up is Little Crystal Creek and a car park and walking tracks and stairs to the water falls. Well worth a stop over to clammer about the rock pools.
Approaching Paluma, McClelland's lookout is short hike on a good trail that affords a great view of the coast, on a clear day, not my day! But another trail about 1km long, again a good surface, called Witts is much better. And as my luck would have it the clouds lifted for me.
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| Castle Hill - down town Townsville. |
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| Little Crystal Creek falls. |
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| McClelland Lookout. No view :( |
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| Witts Lookout, excellent :) |
