Cape Trip – 11th July
Today, we slept in. That’s a first, we didn’t get out of bed til 7am. Glen woke up at 4ish again, but went back to sleep. We packed up quickly and went down for the breakfast that was included in the room’s tariff at SeaBreeze. We were the first guests down for breakfast and caught the staff during their break having coffee. They were really friendly and showed us to where the food was and our table. We had raisin toast, fruit, yogurt, cereal, juice, tea & coffee. We checked out and were on our way to Townsville.
I really wanted to stop at That Sapphire Shop at Leap, but it didn’t open til 10am. Glen has said that we’ll stop there if we come back the coastal road.
We stopped at Home Hill. Glen and his olds lived in Home Hill some time ago. We drove around looking for Glen’s old house, but it has been knocked down.
Home Hill Caravan Park
Glen has got a Tourmaline at home that he bought from Home Hill when he was a boy for $6. So we went to the store to check it out (seeing I was disappointed about the other gem stone store). We had a look at the tourmalines and they were now $130 for a decent size rock. I had a look at the Sapphires (my birth stone) and they were all chips and expensive. Very keen to go back to That Sapphire Shop to see what they’ve got!
Dog posing in front of the Gem Store at Home Hill
On our way to Ayr, dog met his first snake! He was not impressed!!
Dog meets Snake
We stopped at Dal Santos Gourmet Deli in Ayr for lunch. We had to wait 20 minutes for a couple of sandwiches (read cranky Glen), but it was well worth the wait! I had roasted capsicum, grilled eggplant, semi-dried tomatoes and jarlesburg on a pannini and Glen had pretty much the same but with meat. The latte was perfect too!
We met a couple of kiwi ladies at the Deli and Glen was comparing stories with them. Their husbands were in Townsville for the V8 race and they were kicking back in Ayr. They told us that Townsville wasn’t that busy and they had enjoyed their day at Townsville the day before. They had flown over from NZ just for the race. Talk about keen. They were so lovely, they even waved us off when we left.
When we originally planned our trip up to Cairns, we didn’t know or investigate if there was anything else planned up this way. So a couple of weeks ago when I read the Sunday Mail about the V8 Supercar Race on July 11 in Townsville, I freaked out. After many calls, emails and rumours of rooms available, I got a room at the Dalrymple Hotel. Glen was a bit tentative seeing it’s a hotel and we’ve heard how busy Townsville was going to be. So far so good. We’ve just had room service and the food was good.
After we checked in the room, we walked down the block and checked out Anaconda, Spotlight, Dick Smith and a couple of other stores. Glen is very taken with Howard’s Storage World.
We checked out the race and here’s dog getting close to the action! Haha!
Dog getting close to the action
Next stop over Cairns (Palm Cove!).