Here's 4 panos I've taken of Townsville in the past few months. I know they're a bit dodgy but still give fantastic views of Townsville's skyline.

1 - from Castle Hill, stretching from North ward around to City West
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v376/Oriolus/CastleHillPano425.jpg

2 - from Victoria Bridge on a beautiful day, stretching about 270 degrees from Central Park on left around past the City to South Townsville
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v376/Oriolus/VicBridgePano425.jpg

3 - from Ross St, near the end of Palmer St with views of South Townsville and City backed by Castle Hill
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v376/Oriolus/Pano450.jpg

4 - from Mt Stuart, about 10km from the CBD and 584m up
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v376/Oriolus/StuartPano250.jpg

Amazing, Truely Amazing.

very well done.

ive been ot all those places :P :D

And climbed up and down cliffs at Mt Stuart. My god it gets windy up on those cliffs.

And climbed up and down cliffs at Mt Stuart. My god it gets windy up on those cliffs.
I reckon. I was standing on the edge of a cliff at Mt Stuart that abseilers use and a cloud came through and it was really windy - debris was flying straight up the cliff face. If I jumped off I probably would have shot straight up. :)

Very cool Oriolus :)

Loving the last one showing how long the skyline is.

OMG. They sure have stacked 'em in in the apartment building in the 2nd pano. It's quite a huge building mass-wise.

The first one seems the most common for pano-makers lol to do.

Cheers. :cheers:

Lol Oriolus, i know!
I was stanidn there throwing things off and they would come strait back up.
No joke.

Townsville looking suberb :) Cant wait to have better look around FNQ in the coming years.

Awesome mate!! Should look even better in a few years if all the planned projects go ahead. :)

hah nice, haven't seen many pics of FNQ recently :runaway: :D :)

nice work.

this is high ranked in my world best cities list it goes up against miami and GC

Damn you people, Its not FNQ, Its NQ, call townsville FNQ, we'll drive back to the stone age. But call Cairns FNQ:)

Talk about Abseiling down Mt Stuart, I'm supposed to be doing that with a School Group sometime this year.

Wow - Tropical City!!!

There are some great highrise projects going on in Townsville at the moment but everone forgets about the billions being spent on Industrial Projects and the Port of Townsville, also road infrastructure. Oh and the massive amount of sprawl that is occuring out west - which is kind of interesting.

Townsville - a city in the making!!

jt

For the out-of-towners, here is a quick list of the major projects that are planned/approved/under construction at the moment:

Gateway On Palmer 12st (Resi) Approved. Construction begins May.
Hotel Ibis 7st (Hotel) Approved. Construction begins May?? Not sure....
Mint 9st (Resi) Under construction.
Nautica 8st (Resi) Approved. Not sure when construction begins.
Crown 9st (Resi) Approved. But this one may not go ahead due to labour shortage.
Transit Centre Site 9st (Resi) Not sure on the status of this one??
T1 Apartments 20st/18st (Resi) Approved. Construction within a few weeks.
Blenz Tower 20st (Resi) Awaiting approval.
Wintergarden Tower 20st (Resi) Awaiting approval.

They are the main projects. Those panos will look fantastic with these projects finished. Fingers crossed that they all go ahead. :)

For the out-of-towners, here is a quick list of the major projects that are planned/approved/under construction at the moment:

Gateway On Palmer 12st (Resi) Approved. Construction begins May.
Hotel Ibis 7st (Hotel) Approved. Construction begins May?? Not sure....
Mint 9st (Resi) Under construction.
Nautica 8st (Resi) Approved. Not sure when construction begins.
Crown 9st (Resi) Approved. But this one may not go ahead due to labour shortage.
Transit Centre Site 9st (Resi) Not sure on the status of this one??
T1 Apartments 19st/18st (Resi) Approved. Construction August??
Blenz Tower 20st (Resi) Awaiting approval.
Wintergarden Tower 20st (Resi) Awaiting approval.

They are the main projects. Those panos will look fantastic with these projects finished. Fingers crossed that they all go ahead. :)

What about other projects - industrial, road, port, airport ect..
jt

Awesome mate!! Should look even better in a few years if all the planned projects go ahead. :)

Possible Townsville Top Ten c.2008
proposed projects in bold

1. Holiday Inn 20s/76m
2. 1-13 Sturt St (Blenz tower) 20s/73m
3. GPD Tower 23s/approx 69m (not confirmed)
4. Highgate Apartments 20s/66m
5. T1 Apartments Walker 20s/65m
6. T1 Apartments Sturt 18/59m
7. 122 Walker St (Walker House redev) 16s/approx 56m
8. Suncorp Plaza 12s/55m
9. Stanley Place 14s/52m
10. Aquarius 15s/45m
10. Metro Quays 13s/45m


What about other projects - industrial, road, port, airport ect..
jt

Just quickly

Industrial -
state goverment is planning a heavy industry zone at Stuart

Road -
Eastern Port Access Corridor will link Stuart with the port via a bridge at the mouth of Ross River
Douglas Arterial almost completed, further stages of highway bypass planned

Port -
Cruise ship terminal looking close to confirmation (including major reclamation with room for possible around 1000 apartments & marina)
Reclamation along Benwall Rd, including new commercial marina

Airport -
Just redeveloped to include aerobridges and a second level

Just out of speculation Orio, do GPD have renders or so on for YWCA Site, but how do you know it would be approx 69m.
And don't forget about Portofino there too.

^ Ahh yeah.

Portifino (Resi) 9st. Approved. Construction to begin ??? I don't know if anyone knows when!

Gertzy - no renders of GPD tower yet. I'd actually be suprised if it was ever proposed for full height, what with the site having an 8 storey height limit now- it'd take some real balls to say "I'd like approval for a building triple the height limit". The limits are lax but probably not that lax :)

I did read recently that all Gordon Property projects were still on track which is encouraging - maybe it will be proposed just not at 23 storeys?

Not a pano but I found this nice aerial. A little old but it shows the topography really well that includes Mt Stuart that Oriolus took the elevator up for the first pano to post. http://www.sayhey.co.uk/invboard/html/emoticons/wink.gif

http://www.townsville-port.com.au/images/gallery/large/lge-gallery5.jpg

http://www.danielsphotos.org/photos/Australia/Castle%20Hill%20(Townsville)%20Hike/Townsville%20port%20from%20Castle%20Hill_Lg.jpg
Townsville port must be one of the largest in the country for area - look at all that new land!!!!

Below is a great website for Townsville panos - inland views as well!!
http://www.danielsphotos.org/photos/Australia/Castle%20Hill%20(Townsville)%20Hike/imagelist.html
jt

Nice finds Muse & JayT

Not a pano but I found this nice aerial. A little old but it shows the topography really well that includes Mt Stuart that Oriolus took the elevator up for the first pano to post. http://www.sayhey.co.uk/invboard/ht...ticons/wink.gif
It's actually Castle Hill in that pic :)
Years ago there was actually a plan for gondala rides up Castle Hill - it wont happen now because I think Highpoint Apartments (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v376/Oriolus/Highpoint.jpg) are built on the planned site of the base station. Would have been great but probably not financially viable.

Townsville port must be one of the largest in the country for area - look at all that new land!!!!
It's pretty big but would be much smaller than say Brisbane port wouldn't it? You can see the biggest sugar terminal in the world under construction on the right of the pic

http://www.soe-townsville.org/360.html

Above - link to interactive panorama of Townsville.

jt

Oriolus, i borrowed a couple of your panos to use in the Townsville rate the skyline poll. I hope you don't mind. I put your name there for the creds. :)

I don't think he would mind that, I did that with one of his photos of Mints Crane and he said he was cool with it but I reckon as long as you have the his name for Credits.

Course I don't mind - as long as its credited. Actually I put another pano (the Castle Hill one) one in the rate the skyline poll. Might sway a few more voters :)

Great pics. Thnx for sharing them. Very beautiful and the topography is stunning. Looks like you guys have your very own acropolis.

We do and we all love it :)

Here's a bigger version of my Castle Hill pano - double the size so the detail is great.
http://img191.echo.cx/img191/8113/castlehillpano506xa.th.jpg (http://img191.echo.cx/my.php?image=castlehillpano506xa.jpg)

good work oriolus!!

awesome aerial too muse. nice find

Great photos - thanks for sharing them!

I must admit that I hadn't seen photos of Townsville in a long time, and I'm really surprised by the city. It's attractive, and it's skyline is fairly impressive.

Here's another one I took yesterday from Melton Tce, on Melton Hill. It's shows (from left) Urban Quarter 2, Metro Quays, Holiday Inn with Northtown Building below it, than Suncorp Plaza on the right with Highpoint peeking out from the left and Stanley Place just visible on its right.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v376/Oriolus/MeltonTcePanoS.jpg

This one I call 'Honeycombes'. They practicly own this part of town. Their developments are (from left to right) Mint UC, Urban Quarter, Highpoint (up on the hill) and Metro Quays. Their next development (Central) will be on Ross Creek just upstream from Mint.

http://img59.echo.cx/img59/695/honeycombespano255uc.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)

I wish Hedleys had of got the job to develop the old railway yards. I'm not sure if they even tendered for it.

Another great pano anyway Oriolus! :okay:

Another pano I took last week from the reservoir on top of The Cutting above Sturt St. You can see the edge of the reservoir, which has a mural painted on it.
http://img366.imageshack.us/img366/9736/reservoirpanosmall0fn.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

If that pic was a few months old, there would have been a possibility that either myself or some of my mates could have been on the second bottom end balcony at Highpoint!! Many a day were spent there drinking. :D (They've since moved) Anyhow, nice pic Mr Oriolus........Again! :)

As far as major regional centres go, Townsville just puts Geelong to shame, it would be funny if it weren't so tragic....So much nice new development....We need to have groups of people ready with pictures of Cairns, Newcastle and Townsville whenever somebody tries to exhibit civic pride about Geelong...

^ Give Townsville another year or 2 & you'll more than likely see plenty more nice new developments. :) There's quite a bit in the pipeline. Fingers crossed it all goes ahead!!

^^ I've never been but its high on the list. It looks really impressive.

Another pano I took yesterday from the Tim Aitkens Overpass on Saunders St
http://img476.imageshack.us/img476/3701/overpasspanos2hz.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Now thats what I wanted to see, 10/10 :) :okay: :nocrook:.