Magnetic Island

A small and quiet Island next to the eastern coast, close to townsville (a very strange town where I actually wouldn't like to spend more time than necessary... but it has a great aquarium wich we didn't have the time to visit... a pity...)

On Magnetic Island we stayed at Base backpackers hostel wich is amazing. Many small cottages - ours was directly at the seeside, so we could see the ocean out of our bed - isn't that cool?! (Just the people working there were kind of unfriendly - actually the first unfriendly people w met in australia...)

Our first day was just for relaxing and a little walk to town where we spotted a little pizzeria where we stopped on the way back and enjoyed the luxury of dining out.
Our second day on Magnetic Island was for extreme relaxing - it was raining, so we had a wonderful day of reading, staying in bed and so on.
On our third and last day we brought our bags to the ferry terminal, took the bus up north to horseshoe bay and started walking along the little beaches, climbing the rocks, vpotted some coala bears on our way to the fort and finally (after at least ten kilometers of walking up and downhill) took the bus back to the ferry and left the island.

We would have loved to stay another day for pure relaxing but they did't have a free double room...