Charters Towers

Thursday morning we enjoyed a quick dip in the thermal pools then we were on the road by 9.30am heading for Charters Towers. We stopped for any early lunch at Greenvale then heading off again we decided we may as well go right through to Charters Towers. It was a big day for us as we covered 440 klms, we don't usually like to do that distance towing any more, we usually like to be off the road now by around 1-2pm.  At least with sharing the driving makes it not so tiresome. 

We knew our friends Pauline and Les were already in the park at Charters Towers and we were pleasantly surprised to find ourselves only two sites away, so we didn't have to carry our chairs too far at Happy Hour. They were not expecting us until Friday so hopefully they were pleasantly surprised with our early arrival, trouble was we missed out on the scones that Pauline had planned to cook for our arrival on Friday.

We have stayed in Charters Towers previously so have done most of the sights of this enchanting outback town with it's 1890's heritage. With a quick trip up Towers Hill Lookout and out to the Berdekin Weir we refreshed our memory of the area. We have now caught up with the washing and restocked the van ready to move further south to Theresa Creek Dam for a few days.

Road trains Greenvale
This pic took my fancy as gives the impression
of the trailers having a truck towing either way

Lookout over Charters Towers

Selfie

Burdekin Weir