EP43: Tremendous Townsville - Part 2 | Townsville, Magnetic Island, Burdekin | Lap of Australia
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- Опубліковано 26 лип 2024
- PART 2 - When we finally get to Townsville, we spend a week exploring the city, check out the amazing Castle Hill, start our own scooter gang. We spend a day out on the stunning Magnetic Island, visiting some amazing beaches and taking in the WWII history.
To finish the week we have a fantastic stay at the Burdekin Cane Farm and were lucky enough to experience a ferocious cane burn.
PART 1 - What a week it’s been! We start in the wettest town in Australia, Tully, where we have a load of fun rafting down the famous Tully Gorge. We stop by beautiful Mission Beach and absolutely love this tiny little town with one of the best beaches on the East Coast!
On our way towards Townsville, we stop at Ingham to checkout the tallest waterfall in Australia, Wallaman Falls, which drops a massive 268m. Then onto Crystal Creek to have a cool dip in the wonderful waterholes in the area.
We are Hannah, Chris and dog Archie, setting off on a 12(ish) month trip around Australia - our BIG Staycation, with the whole of Australia as our backyard! We've quit our jobs, rented the house and gone from never towing a caravan, to touring the country full time with one! We're learning as we go! / staycationoz
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0:00 Introduction
0:43 Electrical Issues...AGAIN!
1:55 Townsville
5:15 Jezzine Barracks
6:30 Castle Hill
8:55 Magnetic Island
10:23 Cockle Bay
12:15 West Point
13:15 Horseshoe Bay
15:12 Forts Walk
23:12 Burdekin
25:49 Cane Burn
28:34 Burdekin Cane Farm Stay
31:39 Electrical Issues Sorted!
32:44 Wrap Up & Thanks
I can almost smell that cane burning! I lived in Mackay for a fair few years and loved the burn-off season.
Another great episode, happy travels!
Cheers Annette
It smelt amazing!! We also love the Burdekin snow as the locals call it, ash coming from the cane fire burns!! Thanks so much for watching!! 👍
Beautiful as usual..Didn't know you have got mangoes there in Aussie land..Australia's geographical diversity is amazing!!❤️😍
Haha yes there are mangos everywhere in tropical Queensland, they are delicious!! Australia really does have an amazing diversity!! Thanks for watching!! 👍 🍻
Awesome adventures in this ep! Keep up the great work! Loved watching!
Thanks so much and glad you enjoyed the episode!!! 👍🍻
Just watched all 40+ videos over xmas, grate watch enjoyed every minute, broight back great memories of SA nd Uluru / Alice looking. Inspiring
Hahaha wow well done that’s awesome to hear!! So glad you’ve enjoyed them as well!! So many stunning places all over the country! Thanks for watching!! 👍
Hey hope ya safe. Looking forward to the vids in the new year
Thanks! New vids will be coming soon!! 👍 🍻
Lots more action-packed activity. Why is it called Magnetic Island - I don't remember an explanation? Good to see Archie enjoying himself again, especially in the sea. Some spectacular views, especially from Kissing Point artillery post and amazing sunset from Castle Hill. Further spectacular views from the location of the war time 'pill boxes'. It was lovely to see the 'City of Adelaide' with its arboreal inhabitants as well as telling us about it. In the last episode you had lots of healthy fruit but, this time, we saw Chris tucking into a huge bag of naughty chips - hope all his walking burned the calories off again ! Whilst you were sitting doing a recap, Chris mentioned 'a little guy' in front of you. What kind of bird was it, I couldn't see clearly, even after rewind? Such a lot to see in this one, but I couldn't help wondering where cane-burning stands in terms of air pollution in these environmentally sensitive days ? Congratulations on another great show !
Hi Dad. It’s called Magnetic Island because Captain Cook thought that it was affecting his magnetic compass as they sailed past (although it doesn’t seem to be). Glad you’ve enjoyed watching it! X
Hi Chris
Regards to your fridge charge cable via 12pin trailer connector,I would engage a very good auto electrician who understands cable lengths and current. I would run independent charge cable for your fridge or run your 3 way fridge directly from your caravan batteries.
Thanks for the tip, definitely something we’ll be looking into early next year to get it sorted!! 👍 thanks for watching!!
This is awesome! I see what you mean about the hill being just short of being defined as a mountain as when in Auckland, I usually spend a lot of time up Mount Eden and it does look a wee bit lower if you know what I mean.
Haha maybe they have different classifications in NZ, but that would be strange, Mount Eden should probably be Eden Hill based on the Castle Hill logic 😜
@@StaycationOz :D 196m for Mt. Eden vs 286m for Castle Hill...distances were never my strong point :D....tbf they do also call clear Fjords "sounds" too.
Really enjoying the vids - you should be very proud of your WA drone footage video in particular!. My wife and I are due to get our Crusader Serenity in June and we have a 2021 model FR Wildtrak to tow it. Was just wondering whether you had the van rear camera wired through to the sync 3 screen in the Ranger, or how you locate the separate screen if that’s the way you have gone? Just in case you haven’t already passed the Yeppoon area heading south, make sure you visit the Emu Park ANZAC centenary coastal walk - truly beautiful in every way. Cheers, Noel
Thanks so much, glad you are enjoying the vids!! We have a seperate screen for our reversing camera so didn’t connect it to the sync 3 screen, we usually just pop it on the windscreen, to the left of the drivers seat, so it’s not too distracting but I can use it when I need to! Yes we’ve passed Yeppoon and did visit Emu Park and the Anzac memorial and coastal walk, was very impressive!! Thanks for much for supporting the channel!! 👍
That cane farm looks amazing. Do you have a 3 way fridge? Yeah swapping over to Anderson is the way to go. You should do a caravan review?
The cane farm was fantastic!! Yes we do have a 3 way fridge, might look at a seperate Anderson for it in future!! We’ve done a caravan review a while back, it’s Episode 8!! 👍😜
@@StaycationOz caravan review update, how is it holding up? Our last caravan had a 3 way fridge and wired through the 12 pin plug. Anderson plug is the only way to go. These Caravan manufacturers are boneheads, they seem to be lacking in electrical design and execution.
We might do something like that for EP50, putting together something like that, we’ll talk about how the van has been!! 👍