Pictures - page 1 - Townsville 2003

	4/2003: Timo doing Nordic walking on the mountains behind the James Cook University in Townsville
	The village that you can see down in the walley is Douglas. There is our rental home. We moved to Townsvile on January 13th 2003. Nancy got a job in the hospital as an occupational therapist.
	5/2003: Panorama picture of our kitchen and living area.
	Panorama picture of the house from the front.
	Panorama of the house from the back yard
	Plan of the house. 1. Front door. 2. living area. 3. Door to the backyard . 4. Office room. 5. Car port. 6. Kitchen. 7. Bedroom .8. laundry room. 9. Bathroom . 10. toilet. 11. bedroom. 12. bedroom. 13. back veranda. 14. laundry drying. 15. compost.
	Kitchen. The wooden dish rack/shelving is planned and assembled by time using ready made dish rack and pine shelving.
	We had arrived to Townsville in mid January from Sydney where we were staying in friends' house until our cats were released from quarantine.
	Growing red chillies.
	Nice bird in our front yard.
	March 2003 we took a dog. She was for sale in a garage sale. Bluey is red heeler, ie. Australian cattle dog. She loves swimming. We went to swim in the Ross river of Townsville.
	Everything is exotic for us here ...
	Nancy was working as an occupational therapist. One of her patients is a cattle farmer. He invited us to visit him near Charters Towers. In September it was so dry there.
	Townsville CDB. The funny tower is Hilton hotel. x
	Townsville city
	Castle hill and North Ward.
	There are cane toads everywhere.
	Dead pig on the road
	Cane toads swimming in bluey's pool.
	So many cars, so many injured and dead animals in this country!
	Cockatoo (kakadu)
	Possum mother with her baby visited us. They were eating in the bird feeding place. Our Kitti cat used to sit under the tree and just look at the possums.
	Lolitha cat in the backyard. For the first time in their life, our cats Kitti and Lolitha could go out, smell the grass, climb trees.
	Dangerous to swim outside stinger net.
	We were learning gardening.
	North ward.
	December 6th 2003. Townsville Finnish community and some visiting guests were celebrating Finland's independence day in Thai-Thai restaurant.
	Finland Finland Finland!
	Timo as a volunteer worker mowing lawn of the Guide Dogs for the Blind organisation.
	Before going to Townsville we visited Nowra NSW. A distant relative to Timo is living there with his family.