After a not so brilliant run to kick off the day, we headed for the ferry to Magnetic Island. We grabbed a coffee en route thinking this would be badly needed to keep us going for a full day of fun and frolics on the Island.
The Island crossing was beautiful, and at only half an hour, just long enough to keep the kids attention as they looked for marine life off the side of the boat. When we got to the Island Lachie was in heaven to know we were getting a bus to do the Forts walk, close to . Depending on the brochure we read, the walk varied in length from 2.8 to 4.2 km – obviously we hoped for the shorter one and the bus dropped us at the start point, half way to nowhere.
The walk was great, though it was definitely closer to 4km and the last kilometer was up and down pretty steep steps to the bunkers and lookups at the top of the Island. The kids managed it, Em no probs, and Lachie with the obligatory tumbles, but we enjoyed a picnic before heading back down to the “main road”. Whilst there are apparently koalas along the way, we saw none, but no surprises the noise we were making.
On finally getting to our bus stop we realized the next bus in our direction was an hour and 20 mins, so we waited half and hour and headed back to the other side of the Island – Picnic Bay. Both kids passed out briefly on the bus, and Lachie slept on myself and then the grass for a further hour and half when we got there only waking when Nick got icecreams for all but him. He ate mine of course.
Nick and Em went swimming in the swimming enclosure as it is still stinger season, and then Em and myself went looking for crabs and instead found a shipwreck poking out of the water – only visible at low tide. She was thrilled!
A quiet evening at the campsite before yet another move tomorrow – yawn…..
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