When peripatetic photographer Abra issues an invitation to meet you off the ferry on a sunny Sunday morn and go for a tour of Townsville, you need your walking gear. Up early, she had already been for a walk along the waterfront . Our magical mystery tour took in the CBD , this blogger pausing for a much needed rejuvenating tumeric sample along the way , the beachfront and an impressive art gallery .
With little traffic about , snaps were taken of interesting buildings, shipping , memorials to a Catalina which crashed during WWll and Cyclone Yasi .
Near the rockpool is a platform which offers a soothing panorama of sea, azure blue sky and rock formation , outriggers and kayaks nearby .
An unexpected detour to the Drill Hill Gallery produced an array of interesting items including a dramatic creature which would surely have inspired Alfred Hitchcock,a giant Blue Wanderer butterfly made from bits and pieces that included the innards of a piano .
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Sculpted by Sue Tilley , $5500.
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During our tour Abra received an email from France and updates on a rowing regatta in Rockhampton at which Townsville girls were doing well so we were being kept up to speed on many fronts .
