CHRISTMAS 2009 - HERVEY BAY QUEENSLAND We left Magnetic Island early Tuesday 22nd December morning via Ferry from Nelly Bay Harbour to Townsville. Here we picked up a coach to take us a short distance to the Premier Coach station where our bus was to take us to our next destination, Airlie Beach. The journey from Townsville to Airlie Beach took four hours stopping only once along the way for a toilet break. We arrived in Airlie Beach 5.30 pm, a picturesque and ...

MAGNETIC ISLAND - IT'S ATTRACTIVE! We arrived on Magnetic Island (Maggie) 11.30 am Friday 18th Dec'r via a 40 mins Virgin Blue flight from Cairns to Townsville and then a 20 minute SunFerries crossing to the flashy Nelly Beach Harbour where the Maggie experience begins and ends. Magnetic Island is a small island with a population of 2,100 8Km off the mainland of Townsville. It is packed full of Koalas, stone-curlews, rocky outcrops, dry forests and beautiful ba...

After a 23 hour journey covering some 10,000 miles from Heathrow to Cairns we arrived early Sunday morning to some glorious Queensland sunshine! Laura and James had been staying in a back-packers hostel in Cairns called 'Tropic Days' and voted it one of the best in their 3 month's travelling and some 33 different places stayed at to date. We collected our rental car and headed into Cairns to meet up with the intrepid travellers and now keen scuba divers. They ...