The Best Sight in Townsville, Great Barrier Reef

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Townsville is blessed with a golden, 2-km (1-mile) beach that stretches along the city’s northern edge. The beach, with its associated pools, water park, and adjacent parklands, is hugely popular with the locals, especially over school holidays and summer.

Queens Gardens

North Ward

Offering shade and serenity less than a mile from the CBD, Townsville's colonial-era Queens Gardens occupies 10 verdant acres at the base of Castle Hill. Bordered by frangipani (plumeria) and towering Moreton Bay fig trees, whose unique dangling roots veil the entry to the grounds, the gardens are a wonderful place to picnic, stroll, or amuse the kids. There are play areas, a hedge maze, formal rose garden, fountains, and a lovely rain forest walk. A compact aviary houses bright-plumed peacocks, lorikeets, and sulfur-crested cockatoos.