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Lush forests, beautiful desolate beaches, clear emerald green water that verges on turquoise blue, about 300 days of sunshine and a population of 2500 people - that is Magnetic Island. Great lookouts are scattered all over the national parks, which cover about 60 percent of the island. The only way to get to these lookouts and some of the most peaceful bays and secluded beaches is on foot, trekking through the green hills which attract an enormous amount of birds. On these tracks the probability of bumping into a koala, one of Australia\'s icons, is pretty big as well although we couldn\'t find any. A little later my friend Ronnie and I took out his little open motorboat and went fishing. There are loads of 10 000 year old or more bommies (underwater boulders made out of reef particles) which act as sanctuaries for great tasting fish such as the coral trout and the barramundi.
That afternoon we went out on the water again to snorkel over a wreck. Here the colours were really intense and the variety of fish enormous. It\'s a bit weird snorkelling over a wreck. You kind of wonder what would have happened to the people inside the ship when it sank and how rough the sea must have been when it sank. The wreck was pretty close to the shore so any survivors could have swam to the beach but you never know. The fish were really amazing: beautiful blue and yellow fish, black and white striped fish, big grey-silver fish and many more. The under water world holds many a beautiful sight here in Australia, very different to the usual merky water of the atlantic which I am used to.Dolphins and sometimes sharks patrol these waters as well, which makes for a great spectacle.
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