Townsville After a long and tedious greyhound journey, made much longer due to the tailback on Bruce Highway...the result of a fatal crash which left 4 people dead... we arrived into Townsville to a power cut. Our luck just keeps getting better! Convincing ourselves that bad luck comes in 3's, we headed out to dinner with our Mission Beach family of Beth, Jamie, Sarah, and John. 'Cactus Jacks' left much to be desired, but at least the power was back on at the hostel by the time we got back...yay! Following a very warm and sweaty night at Globetrotters (Townsville), we decided to abandon our plan of spending another night there, and jumped onto a ferry destined for Magnetic Island. Magnetic Island Known as Magi to its friends, Magnetic Island was tropical paradise after the last
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