After a really sleepless night I wanted to have my breakfast-toast, but realized, that my cooling bag had been cut, and there was nothing left but the plastic cover of the  toast,  spread all over  the sand. There had been thieves at night! :O But what kind of thieves?

Having thought about it for a while, brooding over what kind of thief would take upon himself to walk 3 km just to steal a package of toast, I came to the conclusion, that the thieves couldn’t have been human beings, it must have been wallabies or oppossums from the island. Curse them! I shouted at the animals, because I couldn’t enjoy my breakfast today. 🙁 That’s pure wildlife ! After that fiasco I washed myself in the little creek, I didn’t want to risk to go into the sea alone because of Stingers. (Jan was still sleeping) At 7:00 am I woke him up, and we started to pack our stuff. We left the tent and some of our clothes behind. :/ Our plans for the day were to drive to Nelly Bay for snorkelling. There is a special snorkelling track -, to walk the Fortes walk and to snorkel at Florence Bay. We thought we could hitchhike all the way, but after one hour waiting on the road, we only got a lift to Nelly Bay.  Down there we decided to hire a scooter for one day.  🙂

It was much fun to ride from one bay to another, and I decided to cancel the Fortes walk because of my sunburn. ( the peeling of my whole face-skin had started  :/ ) Hopefully it will have healed when our Whitsundays trip will start.. :/ The sun wasn’t shining today ( good for me and my sunburn on the one hand but on the other hand it put me in a bad mood.:/ But Jan and I managed the day very well, we went snorkelling, had lunch in Horseshoe Bay, where I published my blog, and where I got back the deposit for hiring the scooter.

At 5:15 pm we caught the ferry back to Townsville and arrived there at 6:00 pm. All in all it was an exciting trip to Magnetic Island for both of us, we saw beautiful beaches, lovely bays, a lot of fish, hitchhiked four times and had a nice ride on a scooter. 🙂 For dinner we went to the Seaview Hotel in Townsville. I ate „The Strand“ pizza and enjoyed the Sunday nightlife. At 2:00 am we returned to the car and slept in it. 🙂