{"id":2100,"date":"2011-05-22T08:19:34","date_gmt":"2011-05-22T08:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/?p=2100"},"modified":"2025-10-01T16:32:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T16:32:16","slug":"magnetic-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/?p=2100","title":{"rendered":"Magnetic Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We left Airlie Beach yesterday around midday for an overnight sail to Magnetic Island, just opposite Townsville.\u00a0 We had good wind the whole way.\u00a0 One-half of Magnetic Island is part of the Great Barrier Reef National Park.\u00a0 The other half is a commercial tourist development with souvenir shops, jet ski rentals, and expensive eateries.<\/p>\n<p>This map reflects our progress to date.\u00a0 The white icon is Scarborough, where we started,\u00a0 the yellow icon is Scawfell Island in the southern Whitsunday Islands where we hid from bad weather for five days, the red icon is Airlie Beach, and the green icon is Magnetic Island.\u00a0 The dark patch off to the east of the icons is the Great Barrier Reef.\u00a0 We still have a long way to go to get to Darwin.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2106\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2106\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/scarb2magnetic.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2106\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/scarb2magnetic.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/scarb2magnetic.png 640w, https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/scarb2magnetic-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/scarb2magnetic-300x300.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2106\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scarborough to Magnetic Island<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The photo below is of the fishing harbor in Rosslyn Bay where we spent two nights.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2108\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2108\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/P1000057.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2108\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/P1000057.jpg\" alt=\"Rosslyn Bay\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/P1000057.jpg 640w, https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/P1000057-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2108\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rosslyn Bay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>M.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We left Airlie Beach yesterday around midday for an overnight sail to Magnetic Island, just opposite Townsville.\u00a0 We had good wind the whole way.\u00a0 One-half of Magnetic Island is part of the Great Barrier Reef National Park.\u00a0 The other half is a commercial tourist development with souvenir shops, jet ski rentals, and expensive eateries. This &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/?p=2100\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Magnetic Island&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[62,1],"tags":[63],"class_list":["post-2100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia2011","category-other","tag-australia2011-australia-2011"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}