December 8

**Lindsay & I with our super-cool scooters**
Magnetic Island is so gorgeous! We woke up early this morning so that Lindsay & I could go kayaking out in the ocean. We had a bit of trouble getting the kayak away from the shore, but once we got out into the water it was smooth sailing. I was feeling a little sea-sick (it's pretty common these days) so we came back to shore. We packed a lunch today and hired some scooters!!! It was fantastic! Since we're on an island, there are only a few different places to go, but to go from one end of the island to the other takes about 30 minutes, mostly because we never drove faster than 50k (when going up-hill we couldn't go any faster than 30). First we went to Picnic Bay to eat our lunches and then travelled to the northern part of the island to go hiking. The landscape here is beautiful & most of the roads are right along the ocean.. palm trees everywhere! After our hike we drove all around different streets and found an off-beat road where there were a few kangaroos running across the street!! It's so fun to see wild kangaroos. We loved our scooters so much & driving on the wrong side of the road wasn't too bad either. We didn't get too confused. It was sad to say goodbye to our scooters. Tonight, we made our dinners at about 7:30 and ate at some picnic tables outside. There were possum's wandering around all over. We were sitting by the pool later, just watching the stars & more possum's. They didn't seem too scared of us. Tomorrow, we're heading to Cairns, the last stop on our bus ride. We will be taking the ferry back over to the main land and catching our bus at 1:30. The bus is another 6 hours north. It's only going to get hotter!! It's already way too hot to stand here. We're sweating buckets basically all day. ew. We're very excited to finally get back to Sydney in a couple of weeks!!