My time on Magnetic Island can best be characterized as long and rainy. I was meant to spend only a day there, but the weather was so wet - and I mean monsoon torrential downpour all day and night wet - that the roads to Cairns were flooded. So instead I spent three days on Maggie Island, much of it curled up in my hostel dorm with a book.
I did get a small window of overcast but dry skies in which I went to Bungalow Bay Koala Village to check out some of Australia's rare and famous animals. How cute is the echidna! It looks like a mix between a porcupine and hedgehog. And who knew koalas scratched themselves like a dog?
