Gustav Creek , Magnetic Island.
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Mushrooms pop up , are blown over .
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Inundation Anderson Botanic Park , Townsville .
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Flooding next to Foodworks, Nelly Bay.
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Part of Magnetic Island known as The Pope's Land is awash, cane toads are heard calling at night , there is water underneath the new seafood café and the Queen of the Jungle , who has a leaky roof , reported an unidentified , long-tailed bird she had never seen before .
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High and dry.
After further torrential rain, public buses stopped running in Townsville and on Magnetic Island , schools closed. Debris swept down by raging Gustav Creek has piled up on the Sooning Street roadway crossing , a portion of the sealed roadway in Compass Crescent has lifted giving the impression of floating . At the Willows shopping centre in Townsville yesterday there were many leaks in the building and part of a ceiling collapsed in a shop .
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