After the short bus journey and 20 minute ferry we arrived in Magnetic Island, and straight away realised how beautiful it was. It was boiling hot as well, 37 degrees in the shade…toooo hot, but we shouldn't grumble! We were staying at Base hostel and it was really really good! It is right on the beach front, and has a huge deck looking out to sea, a large swimming pool also right near the sea, and all the rooms are little triangular bungalows… with air-con...

We didn't get much sleep on our last night as we had to get the bus at 7am! We all fell out of bed packed up and made our way to the bus station. On the bus we all got a bit of shut eye that we missed from the night before. Mission beach is a small town with a few shops and cafés, no bars or clubs so we couldn't be tempted to go out! We got picked up from the bus station by the hostels shuttle bus, the driver Ben, who we later became good mates with was tellin...

After a late flight out of Perth and a two hour time difference we didn't land in cairns till around half 4 on Wednesday morning! We went to get a cab and just heard a young lad saying Gilligans to a taxi driver so we jumped to the case and shared a cab with him to the famous Gilligans hostel that we have heard so much about! The taxi driver was giving us all sorts of advice about North Queensland, warning us about getting stuck in the outback, crocodiles, dead...