LEFT Geoff's place, my home for two nights on Magnetic Island. The hut in the immediate foreground is the kitchen, shut early each night to keep cute possums out! In the background can just make out a 4-bed cabin (with blue door) - they don't have glass windows and get pretty nippy when the weather is cool

BELOW LEFT Marsh near Geoff's Place

Five secluded bays can be assessed via a mountain 'path', one of which can be seen ABOVE RIGHT from the Forts. Below is another one of the bays, but I can't remember which

RIGHT Rainbow laurakeats being fed with honey-soaked bread at Geoff's Place. Feeding time occurs daily (4.30pm) and is an impressive spectacle. What seem like thousands of green birds descend noisily in anticipation of being fed, then swoop when the food appears