more scenes from Townsville

Drumming circle at The Strand held every month close to or on the full moon. Ruby loved coming here (as did her humans) as the energy level was fantastic. The circle was conducted by a group called 'connecting communities' who believed that drumming provided the opportunity for people to connect.  

 

 

The Strand also had some magnificent sculptures including this one of a dugong. Yes, Townsville did have some rainy days!

 

 

We walked everywhere we went. These images are from our walk along the newly revamped waterfront at Cairns.

 

 

 

The old with the new at Cairns. High rise apartments towering over the Barrier Reef Hotel.

 

And the old remains along the waterfront - fishing trawlers alongside at Trinity Inlet.

 

View from Castle Hill Townsville looking north east (ish). Castle Hill was one of the prominent mountains/hills in Townsville which locals regularly ran up. Unfortunately it wasn't uncommon for their accompanying dogs to die from heat exhaustion.

 

View from Castle Hill looking north west (ish). Appeared to be reclaimed swamp/mangroves.

Aboriginal people in Townsville believed (1) that Castle Hill protected Townsville from major cyclones and (2) that Castle Hill was formed when a dingo chased a kangaroo through the scrub, the kangaroo being a pretty smart critter, stood in the water as it knew the dingo would not want to get wet. The dingo waited and waited, resting on it's haunches until it fell asleep and the kangaroo escaped.

The shape of the hill does resemble a dingo from the sea!