Day 26: Townsville

It didn't stop raining.

We were still awake at 4AM battling with the drips from the ceiling. The rain was so hard and noisy we couldn't sleep even if we were dry.

It first started dripping on the pillow and then on Oly's head. Then we found the other secret, sneaky drips that were slowly creating pools of water soaking our duvet (dooner).

We had to get up and move the bed over to the other side of the tent (all of 50cm) but as that area was full of our clothes, wash bags and other stuff we had to move all that too.

So we spent our first night in our new tent home with two buckets on the floor (well one dishes bucket and one egg carrier) and a torch scanning the ceiling looking for other leaks.

I remember the last time we looked at the clock it was 6:30AM.

The humidity at the moment is 73%. The rain was very welcome but it didn't make it any fresher.

It was very overcast but warm. Oly and I got up around noon and jumped on our bikes to explore the city.

Townsville is very small. It only took us 10 minutes to cycle to the city and 2 minutes to cycle around.

Once again we went down The Strand just like the rest of Townsville had. It was full of people playing games, exercising, picnicking, enjoying the water park and in the sea there were people learning to surf. We love it. Plus, of course, there is the Cold Rock Ice Creamery!

When it started raining we went back to our tent, tired from our afternoon of fun.

I really hope it doesn't rain as hard as it did last night... but it will take a lot more than that to break our spirit!

Em

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