Rugged scenery

Magnetic Island

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December 9th 2006
Magnetic Island, the island where the sun shines 300 days of the year , had rain non-stop for the two days we were there. We looked around Townsville (a bit of a ghost-town) before getting the ferry over to Maggie. We stayed in an a-frame wooden hut near a koala sanctuary in Horseshoe Bay. It is a nice little place and the scenrey on Maggie is gorgeous, but there is not much to do when the sun isn ... read more

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Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more