Horseshoe Bay

Sunday 9^th August 2015

Horseshoe Bay

It is another day of outstanding weather , cool nights make sleeping very comfortable, and by mid morning we are in the mid 20’s. Today is market day at Horseshoe Bay, so we plan to catch the 10.05am bus to get us there. At the bus stop we ran into Mark, Janet and family who had the same idea.

As it is only 10 km to Horseshoe Bay, the trip doesn’t take very long. However it is Sunday, so the crowds are reasonable, as many Townsville residents come over to Maggie on the weekends.

The markets are not that great, mostly cheap jewelry and a few other local handicrafts. A complete tour takes about 20 minutes.

Horseshoe Bay Sunday Market

Horseshoe Bay is full of boats at anchor, around 50 at a rough count. Ruby and a few other boats we have seen along the way are anchored here. The tide is going out, so swimming involves standing about knee deep in the receding water. We didn’t bring our swimming gear, but weren’t disappointed that we hadn’t.

The small strip shopping centre (mostly restaurants and bars), is busy.

The beach is nice, and up the Western end, there are horses and people dressed up in cowboy gear doing some sort of fashion photo shoot.

By the time we had a good look around it was 12 noon, and the next bus back to Nelly Bay isn’t till 1.05pm, so we found a comfortable spot at the pub overlooking the beach, to have lunch and wait the bus.

We were back at the boat by a bit after 1.30 pm and had a relaxing afternoon.