Obligatory East Coast Adventure: Day 7

There are a few ways to get around Magnetic Island. You can (shudders) bus it, you can rent a scooter and spend the day looking like a big puff or you can rent a Moke and spend the day being laughed at because you're used to driving an automatic now and not only do you have to remember to change gear because the car won't do it for you, 3rd gear keeps evading you. Mokes are so uncool they're fucking cool. I'd never heard of them until Alice Springs when Wendy who runs Toddy's went on a Moke convoy to Uluru and ever since then I'd wanted a go in one. They're really cheap to rent an all, we picked one up from Magnetic Moke for about $69 for 24 hours including 60 free kilometres which is enough to get you around. It's Magnetic Island for fucks sake, you can stand on one side and spit to the other. Don't, though. That'd be disgusting.

We'd already decided that we wanted to rent jetskis which is something you can do up at Horseshoe Bay which, from what I can gather, passes as the bustling hub of the island. They're not overly cheap to rent but you rent the jetski, its not per person and you can put two people on one. But then you wouldn't be able to race and where's the fun in that?

Jet Skiiiiiii!

We opted for one each for half an hour and proceeded to tear up the ocean and you know what? You really can't tip them. I know, I tried. You can get up to 50mph on them (I think that's about 80kph?) but you're not allowed to get too close to each other. Me and Irma raced anyway and maybe she won most races, y'know, it's hard to tell an stuff what with us being so far away from each other and not really knowing where the finish line was and stuff and anyway I kicked her arse on the beach ok? Yeah. Ha.

On A Mokey Mission

Irma About To Get Her Arse Kicked By Me

After the jetskiing we bumped into some people we'd met at Mission Beach and went on one of the island's koala spotting walks. I was very nearly over koalas but I'd not seen them in the wild yet so we parked the Moke next to a million others at Forts Walk and wandered up to check out the furry little critters. We spotted loads of them, some of them even moved thus proving that koalas are real and not some great Australian hoax designed to lure tourists into the country.

Cute, Cuddly And Very Fucking Lazy

Not A Myth After All

Posing With The Koalas

View From The Top Of Forts Walk

It was around this time I remembered I'd left two gas bottles in my car in direct sunlight for three days. Nothing ends a holiday like thinking you might have blown your car up.

written by

Koala Bear on November 4, 2007 from Magnetic Island, Australia

from the travel blog: Sod Off Great Big Mission Round Oz

tagged RoadTrip, LovinIt and EastCoast

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