Day 75: Townsville - Magnetic Island

We jumped on the ferry to Magnetic Island which took all of 18 minutes.

As we were getting off, a five year old boy whined to his mother "I don't want to walk" to which she replied "I know, I'll just pull a car out of my arse, mate". This has become our favourite retort to each other now, its amazing what we have managed to pull out of our...

As far as the islands we have been on go, Magnetic Island is pretty big. We hoped to cycle but it was far too hilly. Even the bus we caught really struggled.

Today, Friday the 13th, is the Full Moon Party and the island was heaving with teenagers and young backpackers. With that in mind we set off for the Koala Sanctuary in Bungalow Bay. You get to hold a salty (salt water crocodile), koala (for a small fee), python and at the end we fed the parakeets.

We didn't get to see that much of the island, by the time we got there it was around 1PM and we jumped on the 6PM ferry home. If we went again we would hire a mini moke to do a bit of exploring and probably stay over night.

Emelie