We finally got around to leaving Cairns, we were there for 10 days or so but it's the place we've stayed in the longest so far. After a 6 hour bus ride we arrived in Townsville, the biggest city in North Queensland (We were treated to Kids Movie "Mighty Joe Young" on the bus, Jonny said it was an "epic" containing such key components as romance, suspense and....fairgrounds?!) Townsville seemed like a ghost-town, everywhere was shut and we hardly seen another person in the city centre- at 4pm. It seems like such an aptly named place, its name conjures up images of some yocal town in the mid west or something, it does have that feel about it- Apparently it doesn't want to pander to the tourists in the way Cairns does and wants to keep
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