Hanse 400e

Hanse 400e

Saturday, August 12, 2017

Settling in to Magnetic Island

Saturday 12th August 2017

It is a lovely day at Magnetic Island, not a lot of breeze, but low humidity and temperature at mid to high 20’s.


Mica at Maggie marina , with Jo-De 7 (below) in the background




After breakfast, Carole gave the boat a good hose down to remove all of the salt . We then went for a walk to Arcadia, a little settlement to the East of Nelly Bay, along Geoffery Bay. It is one of the older settlements on the island and has a small shopping centre, a hotel, and a few restaurants.


Geoffery Bay


I managed to get a replacement CO2 cylinder for our Soda King machine at the newsagent there, and otherwise we just had general look around to see what had changed. Other than a new restaurant, nothing much has changed.

We walked back along Geoffery Bay, and the boardwalk around the headland to Nelly Bay, where a couple of women were trying to photograph a large sea turtle swimming in the water below.





It was now lunch time, and we stopped at the IGA near the marina to get some cold meat and a few salad ingredients for lunch on board Mica.

Early in the afternoon, we decided to walk into Nelly Bay shopping area to have a look around and met up with Sue and John from Imagine who were heading the same direction. We ended up exploring the shopping area together and stopping for coffee (a very nice coffee), at a new café with a Pirate Theme called Scallywags. They seemed to be doing quite well.


Dinner tonight was a BBQ in the park near the marina that has an electric BBQ and ample under cover seating. There were 12 of us there and we had a great time.

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