The day we went to Charters Towers

I am posting over at the EQUIP book club this month, so it's probably all going to be fillers over here.

I asked myself is it kind? is it true? is it necessary? (what are the other questions? - I feel like there is one more?) before posting this, and decided to go ahead anyway :).

Recently I unearthed some old photos from when Simone, Andrew, Michelle (who some readers will recognise) and myself were living in Townsville. We had a great little group of folk from our church, most of us being far from home and family, who used to spend a lot of time together on weekends and go exploring the North Queensland countryside.

So this is the day we decided to head for Charters Towers. I believe it was February 1998. We all piled into Michelle's nice company car and set off to see what we could find.

When we got to Charters Towers we had no idea where to go, so we did what you do when you get to country towns and have no idea where to go and headed for central park. Once we got to central park we headed for what looked like the feature of central park, the gazebo. And then what is there to do in the gazebo in the central park of a country town but re-enact The Sound of Music.

So, here is Simone and Andrew, doing just that:

I don't know what Michelle and I were up to - just having our go at posing in the gazebo by the look of it.

The only thing more fun was this.

Here they all are, in high fashion. The girl on the left is a backpacker from New Zealand who came on a field trip with me, who I thought was never going to leave.

And just to prove that we were in fact in Charters Towers, here is what it looks like downtown and from some vantage point or other.