Monday 21 May 2012

Magnetic Island

Our guess is that Townsville skips Winter - the weather is warm mostly clear skies, excellent for floating over to Magnetic Island for the day.  



You can hire stretch mokes and topless cars painted pink and white (Barbie cars as Kay called them) or get a bus but we decided to take the Prado for convenience.


 









The island was more populated than expected but you can still find out of the way places, probably because the hire vehicles and buses were banned from playing in the car sized pot holes!

  
We ate lunch at Horseshoe Bay whilst watching the yachts moored in the sheltered waters on the northern end of the islands. Even in winter the life guards still put out the flags although you need to swim within the stinger (and shark) nets.


On the return barge journey in the afternoon we stayed in car rather than go up to the passenger deck. It was an interesting ride, we were travelling backwards, the swell had picked up and we were parked adjacent to 2 large tow trucks each laden with massive generators that consistently occupied the space above our vehicle on each rock and roll! And the scariest thing, a 2 year old boy in toilet training mode, insisting he need to go whilst on the barge. Do you think we got wet feet?

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