{"id":2981,"date":"2013-11-15T09:00:18","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T07:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldtour-outdoorexperience.com\/?p=2981"},"modified":"2021-11-29T14:02:27","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T12:02:27","slug":"magnetic-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldtour-outdoorexperience.com\/en\/magnetic-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Magnetic Island: MTB and Koalas"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After Mission Beach we reached Townsville<\/strong>, the largest tropical city in Queensland. The place is lovely with its marina, its beautiful lookout from Castle Hill<\/em> and also Magnetic Island<\/strong> you can reach by ferry. It was expensive ($32\/person) but the island discovered by Captain Cook<\/strong> and his spinning compass crazy is a really nice paradise where lives the widest population of wild koala in all Australia.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The day before the trip, I called Sam, the owner of Outer Limits Adventure<\/a><\/strong>. He is a really nice person and he offered us a great deal: 7 excellent condition mountain bikes with 29 inches wheels (we call those mountain bikes \u201c29er\u201d) for $150. Usually to get a bike like that, you have to spend around $40 a day. It is the price I paid to Graham, owner of BikeStop Expresso, for my day trip in Smithfield Mountain Bike Park.<\/p>\n

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The island is hilly and you have a lot of trails to ride. We had a flat tyre after half an hour but after checked the pressure in every tyres we didn\u2019t have any trouble. Florence Bay is my favourite spot with a really cool shelter on the sand near to the sea.<\/p>\n

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We rode all the day long without see any koala but on the way back to the ferry, we were lucky. A 4WD behind me on a steep road started to overtake me but then stopped. The reason? There was a wild koala looking the sunset from the top of its eucalyptus. Everybody was tired after a 40 km ride with the head looking down the floor. This unexpected meeting made everybody happy and gave us enough energy to finish our big loop to the ferry.<\/p>\n

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WTOE: Grasshopper Guide_Magnetic Island<\/div><\/div>
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