While lurking about Townsville on Christmas Day , one of our correspondents had no sooner taken this snap of a large Santa on the roof of a house in Mundingburra than there was a loud , single boom explosion , not far away , for which there has apparently been no explanation.
Earlier on , he had photographed the very high tide at the main small boat ramp . It was so high that passengers boarding the ferry on Magnetic Island- a number of them obviouly not in training for the upcoming Brisbane Olympics- were warned they would encounter a steep ramp off the top deck at the Townsville terminal , so they might want to ride on the lower deck .
From Darwin , in the Northern Territory , we received a report that a crowd at Nightcliff wharf watched the exceptionally high tide swirling along the waterfront .
