Reef Lodge Backpackers Townsville

Friday 13 December 2013

What free activities can I do in Townsville? Try a 1/2 day trek into Cape Pallarenda Conservation Park.

One of the free activities while staying at Reef Lodge backpackers in Townsville is a trek through Cape Pallarenda Conservation Park, it is situated at the  end of Cape Pallarenda Road, 10 km north of the Townsville city center. About a 5 minute drive or you can walk and is about 8k's along the Pallarenda beach The park is accessible by car. Gates are open from 6.30 am to 6.30 pm daily.


 
 This is the beach you can walk along to get to Cape Pallarenda


 
 WW11 pill box for a 2' cannon.


 
 One of the beaches at the northern end of Pallarenda beach.


Shelly Cove. Photo: Fiona O'Grady, NPRSR.
Second Beach on the northern end of Cape Pallarenda Conservation Park
 

 Picnic areas are a short stroll from the car park. Photo: Margaret Macindoe, NPRSR.
 Park at the Cape Pallarenda Conservation Park.


"Mr Goanna" One of the residents of Cape Pallarenda


 
Looking back @ Townsville from Cape Pallarenda Conservation Park.


 


"Plain Turkey" another resident you may get to meet on tour trek around the park.









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