Walk to Alma Bay

Thursday 20^th August 2015

There is a bit more wind today, mostly from the East, but otherwise it is a sunny clear day.

Despite it being a little cooler, we walked to Alma Bay for a swim if the conditions are nice. Instead of walking along the track that follows the road, we walked along the beach at Geoffrey Bay.

Looking back to Nelly Bay from Geoffrey Bay Headland

(Grand Mercure Apartments on Bright Point)

At the far end of the beach, a road takes you around to the end of the headland, where there is a boarding ramp for the Sealink Ferries, which apparently used to use this landing regularly. According to the sign there, it is still used on occasions, but Nelly Bay is now the main ferry terminal. Now it is a popular spot for rock wallabies.

Ferry ramp at Geoffrey Bay

There are rock wallabies everywhere

The path to the headland weaves around granite boulders which dominate the Magnetic Island Landscape

By the time we get to Alma Bay, via the newsagent, the wind has freshened and has stirred up the water in the bay, with even some waves being formed. Things have also cooled down a bit, so we decide not to bother with the swim.

Alma Bay

On the way back to the marina, we stopped in at the bottle shop at the Arcadia hotel to get some beer etc, but have a problem getting it back to the boat as it is more than a 2 km walk. The lady at the shop kindly offers to deliver our order when she finishes work at 4 pm if we send over $100 (which was not a problem).

Before lunch it is time to give the boat a good wash down, as it is a bit dry and dusty here and the dust builds up over time.

Just after 4pm, the delivery from the bottle shop arrived as promised. Our other colleagues on our marina arm were most impressed.

Later this afternoon Ruby arrived back at the marina for the night, on their way from Townsville heading around to Horseshoe Bay on Friday. Geoff is celebrating his 60^th Birthday around there on Saturday with a large gathering of family and friends. We had sundowners on Koonya, which then moved on to Ruby, before for having a quiet dinner on board Mica and watching the cricket.