Explore Magnetic Island with a local, you’re bound to have fun!
Maggie Comprehensive Tour - Discover all Magnetic Island has to offer with Magnetic Island’s Best Bus Tour. Available 6 days a week and touring with a friendly expert guide, you will be provided with local knowledge as well as stories on Maggie’s history and native wildlife and flora. This is a 4 hour fully guided bus tour finishing at Horseshoe Bay, where a wide variety of food is available. Guests can choose to remain in Horseshoe Bay for lunch, or return on the bus back to the Ferry Terminal and their accommodation. Horseshoe Bay also has the option to go swimming in our lifeguard patrolled safe swimming area. Protective nets are in place during ‘Stinger’ (jellyfish) season which is November to April.
Maggie Highlights Tour - Perfect for those short on time, this this is a fully guided tour available Monday to Thursday. It follows a similar itinerary to our Maggie Comprehensive but without stopping at the Magnetic Museum or Aquasearch Aquarium. The tour finishes in Horseshoe Bay were you can choose to remain for dinner and a sunset or join the bus back to Nelly Bay Ferry Terminal, or your accommodation.
The Forts Guided Walk - This is a 2 hour guided walking tour of the Forts Complex where the human history is fading but the concrete remains. Your guide will take you in the footsteps of those who lived, worked and defended Townsville during the period 1942 – 1945. The Forts Guided Tours operate two days a week (Friday & Saturday), usually early morning or late afternoon from April to October.