Sunset, Townsville, Queensland, Australia

 A sunset in Townsville at the Caravan Park we stayed at some years ago.  Many times we tried to get into the same caravan park, but it was always booked out.  It's just by chance we got in the first time we went there.

It's a lovely city, 3,300 km from home, so it's a long way taking several days to get there. It's the Gateway to the Great Barrier Reef and opposite the Coral Sea, the climate is tropical.  Magnetic Island is about 25 minutes by a ferry.

Townsville has two season, dry and wet.  The river in the photos is the Ross River and it's 49 km long.  Population is approximately 201,313. 

I remember sitting on a seat by the river in awe of the sunset.  It was probably the first good sunset I had viewed on the trip up the east.

Murals at Sheffield

Sheffield is inland along the North West Coast of Tasmania, Australia and it's known for having Mt. Roland nearby and Murals within the town.  It's called Sheffield because the first settlers the Powlett family came from Sheffield in England. Mining and potato exports made the country town thrive back in the late 1880's.

These days Sheffield has reinvented itself with the arts.  Sheffield host a mural competition usually each year and many murals are on  buildings in the main street and other streets within Sheffield.  I took photos of these murals when there last.