Townsville, Queensland
Heading south once more, we came to Townsville, one of the larger random backpacker towns. Normally a team of hardened travellers such as ourselves would have gone to stay on Magnetic Island just off the coast, which supposedly has 350 days of sunshine a year, making a nice break from having rain pissing down all the time. Unfortunately it was Easter weekend, which meat the every Aussie and his wallaby had descended on our sunny paradise, leaving us honest, hard-...