Mokes, meals and Magnetic Island
April 26th 2009 The city of Townsville sheilds the beauty that lies of its shore. The Island gained its name due to the strange effects on compasses in the age of Captain Cook. Magnetic Island, once a fortress to safeguard the East Coast against long range attacks from the Japanese during WWII, it is now the home to 2000 inhabitants and about as many back-packers.
The place to be on the island is Base. This ho
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