If you ever plan to visit North Queensland...

Let it be in winter...
(or thereabouts... May to October is fine)

Not that I don't love living here all year round, but I think most people from elsewhere would find our summers too harsh.

• it's VERY hot in summer.
• we have cyclones in summer.
• if you swim here in summer you have to wear a stinger suit to protect you from the box jelly fish.

But none of the above applies in winter!!!!!!
NQ in winter is gorgeous.

• balmy weather
• blue skies
• swim wherever you like -- we have loads of beaches on the mainland and on all the Barrier Reef islands
• footy season (home of North Queensland Cowboys)
• festival season ( Australian Festival of Chamber Music --July, Cultural Fest -August) and this year, for the first time, Write Up North --the first ever Townsville Festival of Writing from September 22nd -- 24th -- and yep, I'll be there!!!! More about that later.
  

I could go on and on about the diversity of experiences you could have here in NQ ... right now my husband and one of our sons are off on a boys own adventure , camping, fishing and canoeing all over ...
oh, and I'm finishing my book... better get back to it...
Barb xx