Magnetic Island.

Got up early and went for a ride up Castle Hill. The road was rammed with walkers. It seems it is the thing to do. I nearly took out a cyclist who would've been coming down the hill at about 70km/h on the wrong side of the road on a blind corner. He shook his head at me like it was my fault. I've been a cyclist so I don't have anything against them but if they're wearing Lycra odds are they're tossers. It's good they found a uniform so the rest of us can identify them.

After that I went to catch the ferry over to Magnetic Island. I'm just going to list what I did then post a bunch of pictures.

1. Went for a swim at Picnic bay
2. Did the forts walk.
3. Went for a swim at Horseshoe Bay.
4. Tried to fly the drone up to the forts when I realised I hadn't actually taken a photo of the dull, boring concrete buildings (didn't make it, too windy)
5. Rode to West Point along a dirt track.

Magnetic Island is incredibly pretty.

The jetty at Picnic Bay with Townsville in the background. 

High tide at Picnic Bay

Cool strangler

Koala with a baby on the Fort Walk. 

Katherine Bay (I think). 

Looking up at part of the Fort. 

Katherine Bay again, this time from the Fort. 

I guess I should explain that there are the remnants of a WWII fort on the island. I don't know that the fort ever fired a shot in anger. There are a bunch of concrete slabs and two small concrete buildings remaining. I'm going to sound like a snob but after some of the WWII fortresses and bunkers I've visited this was not so impressive. The views were great though. Don't even get me started on the lack of a castle up Castle Hill.

The drone flight was a bit of a failure. Here is a short rather boring clip.

Echidna I saw on the dirt road to West Point.

Beach at West Point. Hire vehicles aren't allowed out here so it was really quiet and empty. 

Ferry back to Townsville. 

All in all it was a pretty good day. I wish I recorded the ride to West Point. I'm getting much better on dirt and sand. I even overtook a couple of other bikes. One was a push bike and the other was a 50cc scooter carrying 2 people.

Moving on tomorrow.