After arriving in Townsville Harbor this morning, Papa and I took a ship excursion to the Billabong Sanctuary, with animals of Australia. We enjoyed seeing dingos, kangaroos, wallabies, crocodiles, meerkats, wombats, koalas, cassowary, turtles, birds, and more. We had fun!
After seeing the Billabong Sanctuary, we took a ride through the town of Townsville, with over 200,000 people, and the largest Australian military base in the country. Downtown was scattered with historic buildings, and there was a military fort built in the 1800’s and used during WWII. Castle Hill, a pink granite monolith overlooks the whole town. We hiked up to Kissing Point - site of a military fort built in 1891 and rebuilt through the years, then used during WWII in defense of Australia, along with the Americans help, against the Japanese. We hiked down the other side of Kissing Point and around the Strand Rockpool. Rockpools are built into coastal rock shelves, offering calm, saltwater swimming year round. We’ve seen them everywhere we’ve visited along the coast and they are quite popular. Townsville is Australia’s largest copper, lead and zinc port. Townsville was a substantial, very nice city!
