The morning started with light winds so we refurled the screecher then just as Sandra and Doug dropped in enlisted their help to untwist the halyard.
We joined them for coffee and hot chocolate at the pool café before Megs took the kids to the water park again and I went and bought a few more groceries.
The five of us rode scooters along to the fish and chip shop on the Strand and had an expensive but tasty lunch on the windy sidewalk. The seagulls also seemed to enjoy our lunch.
The gelato icecreams after were somewhat large for the kids, John scoffed all of his.
Megs and I and the kids took our scooters all the way north along the Strand visiting a climbing frame then onto Jezzine Barracks Park.
The park is a 37-acre heritage precinct commemorating the military heritage of the Kissing Point headland through public artworks and signage and the restoration of significant elements of the Kissing Point Fort complex.
During WWII, Kissing Point housed training encampments. The area to the south-west of the fortification was renamed Jezzine Barracks in 1941, honouring the recent successful campaign at Jezzine in Beirut. the map of the battle of the Coral Sea was very interesting.
Townsville was the largest Allied operational base in the South West Pacific during World War Two and played an important support role in the Battle of the Coral Sea.
Looking over to Magnetic Island
High on the headland the wind was blowing its full 18 knts throwing a little moisture into the mix to make us quite cold. We hightailed it out of there down to sheltered footpaths along which we scooted back to the Marina.
Morgan badly need a haircut so she was shaved up at the laundry area while Riley entertained Evie on Ovive.
Spaghetti Bolognaise for dinner then a short walk to the Centennial Fountain in Anzac Park which commemorates the centenary of the separation of the colony of Queensland from NSW in 1859. The fountain is spectacular at night with its everchanging colours and the mournful cry of the curlews in the shrubbery.
