After we left the caravan park at Charters Towers, we drove into town to have another look around. I like it there, the old Queenslander houses with their wide bull-nosed verandahs and the solid Victorian buildings from the time Charters Towers was a very wealthy town in the gold rush days. Now, I think it's a cattle town - I certainly saw a lot of big hats and boots around town! We drove on to Townsville - such a pretty city and getting bigger every time we see it, in fact, it’s probably the biggest city we’ve been to since Perth. After a drive up and down a few streets, we parked along the Strand, the road alongside the waterfront. There are big beautiful fig trees growing in the centre of the street, their many roots
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