COASTAL VISION

Townsville's northern beach suburb of  Pallarenda,left, Photo by Aeronautical Correspondent Abra. 

DIRE RUSSIAN INVASIAN PREDICTION

Described  as   a populist polemic by British Israelist Alexander James Ferris citing Biblical text as a basis to fear a strategic invasion of the Holy Land from the secular Soviet Union, this  1939 first  edition  volume, with maps and illustrations, is in the latest  Douglas Stewart  Fine  Books, Melbourne , list for $275.  The  other title  for the work is Zechariah's End-of-the age Message. With its striking cover by  J.J.Hall , it  was into a  fourth  edition by  1942. 

COUNTY BONDI

Bondi  Hotel.

Bondi Icebergs Club.  Abra pix.

BUSY PIGEON PARTY LINE

 

Mundingburra , Townsville.  Vallis.

 

VOYAGE TO A LAND OF MAGIC POTIONS, SCRUFFY DRAGONS AND PHANTOMS

A rum dispatch  from our Shipping Reporter who limped into  Townville's Quayside Terminal Number 10 Wharf when the Holland America Line   cruise ship, Volendam, said to be from Santiago, berthed  with a  cargo  of  tourists.

                                   

It was on a day when the Townsville Bulletin ran a front page story  that the city is open for business despite Cyclone Jasper and Cyclone Kirrily .  Strangely, it did not mention the  cruise ship was due that morning- a  sign  of  being  open .

Our  waterfront roundsman  went to the  terminal when  many passengers from the ship were returning in  buses  from various trips.

Out the front  of the building  they were invited to pat a tame  bearded dragon. Some onlookers seemed a  bit  apprehensive  when  looking at the  critter, as if it could be related to a brown snake.

Inside there were many stalls offering  a wide  variety of  items , including jewellery , prints, T-shirts, Indigenous art, wishing stones and  locally made silk scarves  on which  there  were  botanical prints, even Phantom comics !!!

A sandwich board  , below,  drew attention to a  "majic mist" spray for wonky knees . This could have interested  some of the  passengers who were on frames  and  walking sticks  , as  was our shuffling  reporter .

EMERALD CITY WATERFRONT SPECIAL

 

Not a white pointer shark in foreground .

Queen  Elizabeth .

Abra  Sydney series.

LOW CLOUD

Townsville, Mount Stuart in background. Sara photo.