The outback meets the tropics on Queensland’s North Coast. Townsville, the state’s second-largest city, is a relaxed place with a waterfront café scene again an affable multitude. Offshore sits pulchritudinous also snap Magnetic Island, with unpopulated beaches and admirable bushwalking. The waters between its forested bulk again the mainland teem with fish and coral that form part of the Great Barrier Reef. Little islands grow; some uninhabited, some sacred (analogous as Magn…