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The area of Townsville is also home to some of the best restaurants in town. And the area is becoming the conference and cosmopolitan heart of the city. Also providing access to this exciting part of town with its central location and convenience. With many units close to the city, marina and ocean views to Magnetic Island.

This variety of outlook is unrivalled in Townsville accommodation and is one of the reasons why these apartments are preferred to those on the Strand where generally there is limited view. Your Townsville accommodation will feel like home-away-from-home as you browse around Townsville and its surrounding districts.

Townsville Transit Centre and just a pleasant stroll to traditional Aussie pubs, shops, restaurants and the central business district. Our two bedroom apartments are fully self contained and ready for you. All units feature split system air-conditioning, internal laundry facilities and telephone. There are also under cover security parking facilities and an in-ground salt-water pool. An optional cleaning service is available. Cool, convenient and comfortable base for your stay in magnetic Townsville.

We recommend the following motels and resorts below all have great rates to suit all budgets and tastes.

The Great Barrier Reef being the main attraction people love to see everyday, and also the wonderous rainforests. It is also a gateway to the ruggered outback in the West, which is home to two mining stations as well as a vast array of cattle stations. Many different forms of accommodation are available and there is bound to be something that will suit any amount of people wishing to travel to the area.

Townsville also has some fun night life and really good shopping, which would make for the perfect weekend.

Shopping, fine dining, nightlife, car hire for you to travel at your own leisure around the area and the many day trips available will leave you hitting the pillow at night and dreaming of what you will plan for the tomorrow.

Tropical Flinders Mall is just one of the major shopping centers providing good budget and general stores, as well as stores offering specialty items, restaurants, and shops promoting the city’s tourism. The mall is situated within restored buildings built in Townsville’s historical period, which gives the modern day attraction a quaint charm.

The Tropical Flinders mall takes on another appearance during Sundays, when it changes into a bustling street market, called “Cotters Markets.” Here, stores begin selling North Queensland’s native wares exclusively. Every week, markets are also opened at the Townsville Showgrounds and the Willows Complex in the neighboring city of Thuringowa.

Picturesque Townsville is the perfect mixture of the natural and man-made wonders. The blending of verdant forests and vast savannah lands provide a colorful portrait of Townsville’s natural environment. The Great Barrier Reef and the Reef Islands Resorts showcase diverse natural species.

The Reef HQ as well as the restored ancient buildings provides a view of intriguing man-made structures. The Strand and Flinders Mall provide modern day luxuries. Clearly, Townsville has it all. What better place is there to spend the holidays? Some other places in Queensland are Hervey Bay or up in North QLD they have some great places to stay also.

The city is the capital of a vast resource rich region in north Townsville Holiday Weekends in Queensland. It is located on the beautiful Great Barrier Reef coast, on the doorstep of a tropical rainforests and the gateway to the rugged west, which features historic and present day mining towns and vast cattle stations.

Townsville falls into the “dry” tropics with year round average temperatures of 19.5 degrees celsius (minimum) to 28.7 degrees (maximum) and a rainfall fo 1204mm per annum.The Port of Townsville is one of the busiest in Australia.

It is the export outlet for copper, silver, lead, zinc and nickel, as well as beef, sugar and molasses. Castle Hill, a large granite monolith rising 286m above the city centre, is only just over a metre short of a mountain.

Research and educational establishments include the James Cook University, the Australian Institute of Marine Science, the CSIRO Tropical Agricultural Research Station, the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority and the headquarters of the northern refion of the Queensland National Parks and Wildlife Service.It is also an important Australian defence centre with a huge army base and RAAF base.

Townsville is located just over 1500 km north of Brisbane (QLD’s capital city) by road, or 1.30 hours by air.
Jetstar and Virgin Blue fly direct daily services from, Brisbane to Townsville also, four direct services per week from Sydney to Townsville, Plus Three direct services per week from Melbourne to Townsville. While staying in Townsville or at the airport you may need car hire so you can get around the city town.

Looking for Townsville Accommodation in this simply a picture-perfect city? . Townsville rests by the coast of Cleveland Bay below Castle Rock, which towers above it at 300 meters. To the North lies Mission Beach; to the South, there is the town of Charter Towers and to the West, lies the farming town of Bowen.

Townsville features a delightful mélange of old and new, with a fascinating history reflected by the assortment of exhibits in its various Museums. Nearby towns also reflect ancient architecture, preserved through the ages.

This city, which is widely known as “Australia’s Largest Tropical City,” lies within the nation’s most diversified areas in terms of scenery, flora and fauna. This assures the visitors that they will have a variety of activities to choose from in their holidays.

The Western Queensland’s Outback is known as “The Outback by the Sea.” Unlike the lush and verdant tropical growth in the nearby rainforests, the Outback features winding bush lands, ancient mining towns, aboriginal communities and remote cattle ranches. Within the vast Outback lies Mount Isa, the city with the largest land area in the world. It comprises 10, 977km and is home to the most productive lead and silver mine in the world.

Within this region, Savannah guided tours are available from highly trained rangers. It is noteworthy, however, that much of this area is wild, with the presence of pharmacies ending past Atherton Tablelands and LPG gas is unavailable in many of the surrounding communities.

Among the species residing in the sanctuary are the koala, giant python, crocodiles and cassowaries. The nearby Town Common Environmental Park, on the other hand, provides a home to over 700 species of birds.

During 1935 it was rumoured in the press (Proserpine Guardian 8 June 1935) that the Earl of Airlie was to succeed Sir Isaac Isaacs as Governor General of Australia, and this also may have played a part. As it happened, the Earl did not become Governor General, the post being taken by Lord Gowrie in 1936.

Another factor which may have influenced Shepherd was that in the Parish of Airlie in Scotland is a Glen Isla, a name that already existed near Proserpine when Shepherd arrived in the area. He obviously was keen on Scottish names for he named his two local properties Montrose and Braemar.

Whatever the reason, the Whitsunday’s ‘Airlie’ undoubtedly comes from the Scottish Airlie. (see below) First waterfront settlers Following the proclamation of the new township, land between Shute Harbour Road and the waterfront was opened for selection. The first sale in January 1936 saw four blocks bought by C. E. Mazlin, F. H. Rogers, J. T. Foxlee and H. E. Foxlee, three at ?45 ($ 90) and one at ?15 ($ 30) (Proserpine Guardian 1 March 1936).

By May a further two blocks had been sold, to S. R. Abell and R. T. Barr (Proserpine Shire Council minutes 14 May 1936). Almost immediately after the name Airlie was adopted and the town of Airlie was born in Lands Department records, the area became known locally as ‘Airlie Beach’, and this name was to become common usage in later years. On 6 April 1959 the residents petitioned for an official post office, which was approved on 9 July 1959 with a request to the residents to suggest a name for it.

On 14 August ‘Airlie Beach’ was put forward and later approved by the Post Master General and the Lands Department. The first postmaster was H. J. Rowe in whose store the post office was located. The application for the post office contained the information that there were eighty-three residences in the area of which fifty-three were permanently occupied; there were sixty-nine permanent adult residents and the area carried mainly fruit and small-crop farming (Historical section, Australia Post).

The Scottish Airlie The Parish of Airlie lies on the northern slope of the valley of Strathmore in the county of Angus. It is tiny, about six miles by four, but nevertheless is quite famous in Scottish history. There is no town of Airlie as such, but there is a series of hamlets with Airlie names, such as Mains of Airlie, Airlie Kirkton, Newton of Airlie and so on. Airlie Castle is the official seat of the Earl of Airlie, the title dating from 1639 when it was granted to the Ogilvy family. The Earl’s younger brother, Angus Ogilvy, is the husband of Princess Alexandra (Forfar Local History Society, Scotland).

*The above History is reproduced by kind permission of Mr. Ray Blackwood from his book The Whitsunday Islands-An Historical Dictionary.

More exotic species like the green turtles, manatees or dugongs, sharks, sea snakes, whales, immense manta rays, and loggerhead turtles also call these vast reefs home. The waters around Hervey Bay, which lie below the Reef’s southern end and the Whitsunday Islands off Townsville are areas where whales give birth to their calves.

Reef HQ in Townsville is the largest aquarium of live corals in the whole world. It serves as an educational facility for the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority. This facility features an immense underwater tunnel in which visitors can walk through the heart of a thankful of sharks, stingrays and green turtles. The tunnel likewise passes through a display of coral reef, with its resident fish, clams and other creatures. The facility also houses a rehabilitation center for sea-turtles