Off to the Island.

Got up about 4am.  Very early for me.  Made sure I had everything and put my case in the car, or cases I should say and had a case and a beauty case (for toiletries).  Lynne arrived about 4.45 and we loaded her case into my car, put her car in the garage and off we went.

Took off the way I normally go to the airport, but there was roadworks near the airport exit of the freeway and I was in the wrong lane. Had to take a turnoff further down. Didn't know where we were going, so pulled into a service station (petrol/gas) and asked a customer coming out.

  Finally got onto the right freeway and arrived at the long term car park and left the car.  A shuttle bus picked us up and took us to the air terminal.  I had pre-printed out booking pass so just had to drop of the luggage.  As we were just a little late, we were called up quickly and just made it through security when the plane was loading.

We left Melbourne at 7am and after a 45 minute flight to Canberra, we continued on to Townsville in Queensland which took about 3 hours.  We then caught a taxi to the ferry terminal and after a short wait boarded the ferry for a 25 minute ride to Magnetic Island.

This is our motel, our rooms are on the bottom or ground floor on the left of the photo.

This is the bedroom.  We did try for a two bedroom, but there wasn't one available.  There were only four units in the motel,  two on the ground floor and two two bedroom units upstairs.







                                                                                      This was our sitting room.

And our welcome sign.

And our view from our front door.  Hard to take.








This is the car ferry but not sure you can really tell.  We came over on the passenger one which is a lot bigger.  There are three different ones and they come over from Townsville about every hour, whereas the car ferry I think only does about 6 trips a day.

  And Lynne relaxing in the swing outside our room.  The table and chairs you can see is where we ate our breakfast each morning.

Will continue the saga tomorrow, just something to whet your appetite.



 You can probably tell already, it was a great place to be :)