peregrination :: Townsville [2022]

After a leisurely start, I caught a bus into the city centre to walk around the town.

Coincidentally, the female bus driver was from Canberra and went to high school with my sisters.

The Strand from the North(ish) end
My starting point for my town walk

A huge fig sheltering the cafe from which I started

Castle Hill backgrounding Townsville from The Strand

Panorama view from The Strand showing Magnetic Island
Google created panorama

Street scene on one of Townsville's oldest streets — Street scene on one of Townsville’s oldest streets

Today’s plan was to summit Castle Hill. Sort of a ‘must do’ for Townsville tourism.

The initial plan was to bus into the town centre and go up and down from there.

Castle Hill

Having learned nothing from my cross-island walk, I instead walked over to Castle Hill through the suburbs and ventured up a walking track.

Panorama view of the suburbs of Townsville from halfway-up Castle Hill
Google created panorama

The walking track was mostly well-made up the first 2/3 of the climb. It ended on the road up but there was an unmade short-cut to the top worn by ‘lazy’ climbers. Of course, I went that way.

Trying to show how steep the unmade path up the last pitch was

Panorama view of Townsville (North) from Castle Hill
Google created panorama

View over suburban Townsville with Mercure resort centre-left on the lake

Panorama view of Townsville (South) from Castle Hill
Google created panorama

Selfie from Castle Hill back over the main port

Selfie from Castle Hill back over suburbs

(It was very hot that day. Constantly pulling the phone out of my bag meant that I ended up getting sweat on the camera lens. I didn't realise that until looking at photos when I had returned home.)