Katherine NT

After foillowing the coast all the way I had to turn left somewhere.
I went further north in Quennsland than I had intended but Airlie Beach was the first blue ocean I had seen for a while.
With all the rain the rivers were flooding and the water beind spewed in to the ocean was brown. The rivers down the east coast are plentiful and enormous.
Everything is so green too and with those hills everywhere it is just all so spectacular.
I managed a ferry trip out to see Hamilton and Daydream Islands. They are really just big hills in the ocean. And of course Hamilton where they previously worked so hard to hide or camouflage any buildings, now has a giant cream coloured multi storey phallus plonked right where it can be seen to anyone arriving or leaving the island.
That was my one dry day in Airlie so a bit of sun was so lovely, even though it was pretty warm. The ground was waterlogged from all the rain. Fog down over the hills the next morning, saw me leaving for Townsville.
Passing more sugar cane and big black clouds everywhere, I decided to turn left before Townsville because I could see the rain that was there.
Heading west I passed through Charters Towers, which was full of historical buildings and then on to some rather forgetable towns through some very flat but green land.
Every grasshhopper splattered itself to the car through here.