We caught the ferry across to Magnetic Island today as part of our continuing quest to find the best beach.

The weather was being kind to us and the trip across was met with barely a ripple.  Yet another horrible day up here … raining, pouring, windy … What?  You don’t believe me?

There’s plenty of beaches over here and they’re all quite similar … bloody fantastic!

The first one we hiked into was Balding Bay.

Terrible!

Next to that was Radical Bay.  We had some lunch here under a huge tree.

 

You can drive right up to the beach here and we had the place to ourselves.

Terrible!

On the way out of here we stopped into Florence Bay.  We had a bit of a swim around here, but there wasn’t too much to see.  The main thing we saw was a big jellyfish of unknown origin … that got us out of the water pretty quickly.

Horrible place!

Next stop was a bit further around the island at Picnic Bay.  We’d all decided to give the water a miss here, but that didn’t stop the kids finding something to do!

Home of the crazy bird lady of Picnic Bay

Our last stop was the pub … naturally.  They had a pool there too, so the kids went and fought in that and got out of our faces for awhile.  Ahhh … beer … is there a finer thing in the world?

Yes!  Yes there is!  A leggy blonde to share a beer with 🙂