Day 8 – Charters Towers

My first task was to do some washing, so I went down to the laundry and put in everything I had, except what I was wearing. I haven’t checked the park’s rules but I suspect that someone might object if I wandered back from the laundry with nothing on!

My exercise for the day was to the laundry, back from the laundry, to the laundry to move clothes from washer to dryer, back from the laundry, to the laundry to take the clothes out and then back to the cabin. Not quite the same as climbing Boolimba Bluff but still needed a sit down with a cup of coffee to recover!

Then into town to buy some provisions and have a look around. The shops are the same as everywhere and the town looks like a movie set for a film about the 1950’s. My brief encounters with the locals gave the impression that the gene pool in Charters Towers is quite shallow.

I came here because the name has long fascinated me. Now I’ve been here so it is ticked off the to do list!