Today we got up fairly early as we wanted to get the ferry over from Townsville to Magnetic Island/ however what we didn't realise was that the ferry only leaves every 2 hrs and as it was a 30 minute walk from the hostel to the ferry tminal, we missed the 10 o'clock ferry. we almost missed the 12 o'clock one as well because we were on the internet and left at quater to so had to run most of the way! We had been told by various people that magnetic Island is a...

We got the 9:20am bus this morning to Townsville, the last place we will be stopping on the East Coast before we make our way inland to Alice Springs and Ayres Rock. The journey took about 4 hours which was really short compared to the major slogs we have made between places so far! We got into Townsville at about 1:30pm where the bus dropped us of at the ferry terminal. Not wanting to walk the 25 minutes into town with our bags we hopped on a bus that thank...