March 9, 2019 – Townsville, Queensland, Australia
We arrived at 8 am this morning. Outside of our room is today’s activity. The hike up Castle Hill.
Walking to town was possible but we boarded the shuttle to give us a head start. From our drop off point, the top of Castle Hill was only 1.5 miles.
We found the trail and started our way up. Lots of steps. A few breaks were necessary along the way. It was cloudy and rain was moving in. The weather was changing quickly.
Parts of the trail had stairs, other parts were very rocky.
We hiked down a different trail that brought us to another side of the hill. We were able to walk along the waterfront, through town and then decided to walk back to the ship instead of taking the shuttle. We were in intermittent rain and our clothes were quite wet when we arrived back. We changed and then had lunch. We spent the afternoon off the ship and enjoyed the faster wifi. My iPad had 38 updates to download and I was able to download the more than a gig of data.
A big day out on the reef tomorrow. We decided to stay on our room and watch a movie.…