It was just another of those slow news days in the Queen City of the North . As usual, the drunken clock faces atop the city's former post office were still telling the wrong time, which reflects a certain timeless image , a place that cannot get its act together , unable to find a key to wind up the civic chronometers. No reporter asking why and following up the subject .
Needless to say, the clock on high at the old railway station building also was not working . It had been hoped to bring out an Italian expert in getting clocks and trains to run on time , but he is in quarantine in Rome hanging by his feet , due to Covid-19.
At the same time , on the waterfront , there were numerous stories but the landlubber media rarely ventures near the sea , unless it is the Townsville Bulletin after an eye candy P3 weather girl/s shot on The Strand .
Rupert Murdoch may have said P3 girls were a thing of the past , but not in Townsville , bat mauled mango and cheesecake capital of the North .
Rupert Murdoch may have said P3 girls were a thing of the past , but not in Townsville , bat mauled mango and cheesecake capital of the North .
Anyway , who would be interested in the above 45.6 metre luxury superyacht, Moatize, the former Ilonka , anchored off Magnetic Island ? This is the swank yacht which lost control coming into Cairns in August last year , crashed into a gangway , narrowly missed a restaurant trawler named Prawn Star .
Out in the marine Duck Pond there appeared to be a strange craft, above, loaded with toilet rolls !!!! , inspected by inquisitive seagulls . Our waterfront roundsman , the only one north of Bronte, was reliably informed by a Maori sailor in Molly Malone's Irish Pub that the above vessel is indeed loaded with toilet rolls shipped in from New Zealand from the Kawerau pulp and paper mill . The mill endlessly eats trees from forests planted in the Depression...forward looking are Kiwis .
Another vessel of interest, above , which conjured up images of the missionary position, island trading , perhaps with a dash of blackbirding on the side , like the early days of Queensland slave labour, only attracted the attention of another inquisitive seagull, not a local reporter .Then there was the following cargo ship said to be named after another US presidential scandal .
