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Day 31 – Tuesday
We headed towards Townsville today. Setup camp at Alligator Creek Campgound and then drove into Townsville to sort out the alternator. Luckily the auto electircian agreed to have a look at it in between his other jobs so we wouldn’t have to come back another day. We walked around some shops and took the boys to Lollipop Playland to kill time. Bad news is the alternator was installed incorrectly so thats why it all went wrong. But the good news is we now have another new alternator. Fingers crossed this one doesn’t do the same.
Day 32 – Wednesday
Left Townsville and headed west. We considered continuing north but thought if we head west now we might have time to go down to Alice Springs… we’ll decide on that once we get to Tennant Creek.
We spent a couple hours in Charters Towers which is a lovely little town. Weather has been great albeit hot. We can just tell we’re going to roast in Darwin when we get there.
Continued west a bit more and stopped at a rest stop for the night. The boys had had enough of the car by then. Pretty happy to have a mosquito free night! Hopefully it will stay that way – Give my arms and legs a chance to recover from the hundreds of bites I have already.
Day 33 – Thursday
Continued west today to Hughenden. We had planned to stay at the caravan park there but we arrived outside the park and we just didn’t like the look of it. We had a look at the information centre where they had a dinosaur and fossil exhibition. Took some photos with Mutt 
and then enjoyed a coffee in the local cafe. Next stop was Richmond. The caravan park is right next to the lake and there is a great water park that the boys thoroughly enjoyed. 
Scott chucked the yabbi pot into the lake in the hope for tomorrows dinner…
Day 34 – Friday
Nice relaxing day – we started off by popping into the Kronosauras but at $10 each we decided it was too similar to Hughendens exhibition to be spending another $20+ on. 
So we headed off to the free fossicking sites just out of town and tried our luck at finding some fossils. We thought Luca would love digging around in the rocks but he was more interested it beeping the car alarm and waking up Jaz. I had a dig around for a while but it started getting too hot and all I was finding was broken shells. Scott on the other hand got really into it and managed to find a fossilised squid. I cant remember the proper name for it now though. He got the whole thing but unfortunately its broken in 2 places. Still impressive though.
Scott checked the yabbi pot and hoorah!!! Our first catch!! And what a boy he was!
We had our first rain on the trip the night before and its been really overcast today and every now and then it would spit a bit so we spent the rest of the day relaxing. Its still warm though so I did take the boys back to the water park and then afterwards we walked to the shops and took the boys to the park.
We got given another smaller yabbi by some other folks in the park so we enjoyed a small taster tonight – 2 yabbies don’t go far but they were YUMMO!!
That looks just like our pet yabbi……. how could you have eaten him ?
Looks like you guys are having a fantastic time ! Ill keep up to date wit the blog untill we see you in Darwin ! Love to Scott and the boys !
Just following your travelling ways around australia wish i was with you guys. We travelled back in 2004 with 3 kids under 12 for 1 year loved it. Loved darwin and WA only wished we didnt come back. I will keep a look out for your blog happy travelling cheers glenn and joanne.