We travelled about six hours south to a town called Townsville and hopped a ferry over to Magnetic Island. We stayed at Base hostel (big hostel chain in Oz) and stayed in a bungalow cabin thing. It was right on the beach and we fell asleep to the waves crashing. Our deal included a couple meals and snorkeling so that was fun!
Magnetic Island is kind of like what I picture Nantucket to be like I think. Not too much to do but nice to relax and hangout. All the beaches are off the one main road that runs around the island, and we had to hike an hour to our snorkeling destination called Florence Bay. We had our own private beach for a while, it was great! Couldn't see much snorkeling though, the current was really strong and it had just rained so we called it quits and sunbathed instead.
We went to Horseshoe Bay, the big touristy area (when I say big I mean 4 restaurants and a couple shops!) for lunch and had Mexican food. We forgot how terrible the Mexican is here...I think that might be the end of my Mexican exploits for this trip. Tomato sauce instead of salsa! And cream cheese instead of sour cream. However Kar and I decided if we get sick of healthcare, we're coming back and opening a chain of good Mexican food here. We'd be billionaires.
After our day of fun we headed back to our hostel for the night. The bar had limbo and other games for the night's events and 1950's music was bumping in the stereo. Interesting choice of entertainment for the night!
On our third and final day, we walked around a little and found the country club and golf course. Nothing too crazy. We walked for half an hour and Kar got a huge sunburn on her forehead. Poor irish skin. She's ok now though!
Next stop: Airlie Beach and the Whitsunday Islands!
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