While the Great Barrier Reef has experienced extensive coral bleaching , it appears a prominent Townsville attraction, The Saint , on the Castle Hill pink granite monolith , is also suffering due to the weather .
Our Shipping Reporter recently went looking for the 20 metre high figure and found it had almost faded away. This, he said , is no way to treat a saint and a tourist attraction.
The Saint clearly stood out in the above painting and a book was written about the figure which was drawn on the north face of Castle Hill by James Cook University students in March 1962.
The Saint was inspired by the figure left behind by Simon Templar in the British detective series written by Leslie Charteris.
