Karumba to Townsville part 2

The roads in QLD have been interestingly bad, on the way to Charters Towers we where bounched about it may have been straight but not smooth. we have come accross some large loads on these roads, Ian notice a lot of chatter on the CB re a wide load going west we are going east, after a quick word with the lead car we pulled up just before a bridge & bend. The load was 2 x 6m (2 large trucks 6 meters wide) we had others that day 4 mt wide 2 lead cars but 6 meters was getting big. 

A few of the road to Charters Towers

Hughenden, On our drive from Richmond to Charters we stopped at Hughenden to see another Dinosaur (Muttaburraaurs) he is 2 dinosaurs part found in Muttaburra & part just outside Hughenden, he is very local, large & complete for bones. The display here was excellent, lots of mineral rocks & various fossil bones. We had lunch at the Holden Cafe, nice lunch. 

Charters Towers was a quite place, we went to the look out, to view the country around but the smoke & dust made  it hard to see the area.

The gold battery was very interesting, bits of old machinery, inside the machinery was still in place all the bricks in the building where made on the site by the workers, the battery was working up to the mid 1980's & was preserved by the QLD. Charters had quite a lot of gold & some small scale mining is still going on. The building a beautifull and old. 

Parts of the old engine @ the Battery (crusher)

The Charters Towers Telegraph & Post Office

Bunkers for storing amumnion in WW11

Townsville, we stayed here for a week, the first thing to get done was the fridge in the van, it stop working on AC in Charters Towers. We meet up with Gavin Hall and had lunch (he worked for TR p to 3 years ago) We went to the RAAF Museum which was quite interesting, the Maratime Musuem was great lots to look at, with a good display about the women in the WW11 and the effects on Townsville as a whole. Lots of interesting & different displays.
We went to the Strand to relax it is quite a nice place to walk, 2 1/2 km of beach front lots of cafes. Did a quite a bit of relaxing. The park was nice but at the end of the RAAF base with choppers going till late at night & trucks going to a building site. I did some sewing cut out my quilt & lots of harts to sew.

Plane at the RAAF base

A view of the Strand in Townsville

Well that is all for now I will tell you all about Magnetic Island and more on the next installment of our travels.