Magnetic Island is located 8km off the coast of Townsville and was discovered by Captain Cook in 1770, although he never set foot on the island. A lot of people have asked why it is called Magnetic Island, we were told that when Cook passed the island his compass pointed to the island instead of North, nobody can explain why this phenomenon occurred and it has never happened since.  We traveled to the island by sea link ferry and booked a 3 hour tour in a stret...

Mission Beach was a complete wash out, we left Port Douglas around 9am on Thursday and first headed north to Mossman, we were going to walk to the gorge but it was beginning to rain so we stocked upon supplies and headed south. We drove the 200kms south to Mission Beach in torrential rain and arrived in torrential rain, in fact it probably got heavier and coupled with the gale force winds we were left wondering if we were in Australia or back in England?! The hi...