In Townsville!

Last night Amy and I spent the night in Cairns again, at The Northern Greenhouse, the same hostel we stayed at before. This morning, we took the Greyhound bus from Cairns to Townsville. It was about a 6 hour bus ride. The bus was only half full, so we were able to stretch out and enjoy it, although Amy slept for much of it, as she gets a little car sick. She didn't really miss much though, just a lot of country side filled with sugar cane fields. And trust me, there was A LOT of sugar cane. There were some pastures filled with cows thrown in the mix too, but mainly just sugar cane. I tried to figure out what type of cows they were, but didn't have much luck. Since it's so warm here, they have to have cattle that do well in tropical areas, and they all looked like Brahman or a cross of some sort with Zebu cattle. Some looked like possibly Charlaois, but I'm not sure.

We are now in Townsville, and staying at a really cool hostel called the Reef Lodge. We have our own room here, instead of a dorm, which is a nice change of pace. They also have washers and dryers (most places only have washers, so all our jeans needed to be dried and shrunk) so we already have started laundry. When we first came to Townsville, I'm not sure I was going to like it. It's a lot drier here than in Cairns and up North, so it's more desert-like. On the bus ride in, we also passed a lot of industrial buildings, most of which looked a little run down. The hostel is downtown, near the beach, and is in a really pretty area of town. There are a lot of older buildings, with lots of architecture that kind or reminds me of New Orleans, with all the wrought iron work on the brick buildings.

Tonight, we are going to a rodeo! There is a PBR event here called the Troy Dunn International, and we have tickets, so that's the plan for tonight!