Blogs from Magnetic Island, Queensland, Australia, Oceania - page 11

Goodness me I havn't written for you guys for quite a while....you must be so bored!!hehe Let me give you a quick catch up of the beautiful little adventures i've been having over the past week or so :P!! After Fraser Island and Rainbow Beach I caught the Oz Experience bus and went to a little place called Kroombit Cattle Station which is situated Inland from the coast.....I had sooooooooooo much amazinly brilliant funn!!! I got to herd goats on horseback, we did a goat muster.....catching and pretending to brand a goat....it was sooo funny to as I was in a group of all girls (me abby and jess) and they gave us such a big ass scary looking goat!! It jumped up onto the top of the gate and it was sooooooooooo blooming scary!!!! then ... read more

Arrived in Magnetic Island today, we had to get off the bus at Townsville and get the boat over. I was a bit nervy at first cos i was on my own for the 1st time in ages, but i met people straight away. There was me, Charlie, Nicky, Laura and Becky who were together all the time there. Charlie left after one day, but the others were there the whole time. We were staying at Base, and it was beautiful there, a really chilled out relaxing place. We drank the bar dry............ of Pinneapple juice!!!!! Laura and Becky hired a Moke while we were there, so we al went out for a drive in that. It was so funny, that moke looked like a barbie car, it really didn't look real. then the next day ... read more

We spent a few days between the beautiful Magentic Island and Mission Beach as just the five of us. We basically just relaxed during these days. Our hostel on Magentic Island was amazing. It was like something you'd expect to find in the Bahamas. Everyone stayed in little beach huts and you were literally right on the beach. It also had one of the very few bars on Magentic Island. Free Kayaking (or canaking as we dubbed it - a cross between canoeing and kayaking) was included in our stay so we spent a morning doing that. We went up to the shark nets to see if we could spot any (we couldn't) and toyed with kayaking around the cove to find an apparent nudist beach but decided to spare our eyes and tired limbs. Our ... read more

On our last full day in Cairns we decided it was time to something more adventurous than just relaxing by the pool and having BBQ's everyday. We booked a diving boat and headed to the 'Great Barrier Reef' for a day of scuba diving. Me, Rick and Nick were in tip top condition for the dive however Ross had only had one hours sleep and was feeling worse for wear...this became evident on the boat journey to the reef. We were briefed on safety and where the dive spots would be and exchanged our ISS scuba diving qualifications. Today we would be diving on our own with no guide woooo. On our first dive we pretty much were thrown off the boat as the skipper had to keep to his diving schedule. This was slightly scary ... read more

21st - 23rd April - Cairns to Magnetic Island and Townsville After spending some further time in Cairns we finally managed to get round to booking our Oz Experience to start our trip down the East coast towards Sydney. First stop was Magnetic Island, just off the coast from Townsville. When the bus arrived it was smaller than I had expected but we all crammed in and met our fellow Oz Experience travellers. On the trip down we stopped off at a large scale croc farm where the animals are farmed for their meat and skin. On arrival the guy brought a small croc on board and allowed us all to have a hold. Its a weird texture! When being passed around the baby seemed relatively calm until he was passed to me when he chose ... read more