Fraser Island

Fraser Island DEFINITELY needs its own blog. What a beautiful, fantastic place!! It wasn't ideal because we DID get rained on and pretty much slept in a puddle the second night...it's tough when Australia chooses to end it's draught when we're CAMPING...yeah...thanks.

Group dynamics are an interesting thing...our group consisted of 10 people...us 5 canadian girls (with kickass handmade Team Canada shirts we might add), one canadian guy, one american guy and 3 swedish girls. There was some tension, no doubt about it, which happens when groups are thrown together and have to navigate, drive and set up camp together...but by the end of the 3 days, we knew each other fairly well:) Only LT and the american guy were over 21 and able to drive a stick, so LT pretty much drove the majority of the time on the island! Didn't matter that they drive on the other side of the road...AND the car...AND the stick shift is in the other hand, AND we're in 5 feet of sand...no prob!!!

First day we arrived via ferry in the afternoon and the adventure began! We had to do a grocery shop before we left and load in all our gear, and even though no one had anything bigger than a backpack for the 3 days, we were FULL. Small reminders of being jammed into tuk tuks in Asia....ANYWAY, driving in the sand is harder than we thought!! We stopped at a VERY cool lake called Lake Mackenzie, which has gorgeous white sand without the salty ocean water. We made our way to the other side of the island to set up camp for the night on the beach!! It was SO weird driving a 4x4 on the "highway", or the beach!! Team Canada, aka the 5 canadian girls, crammed into one tent, so it was a little squishy, but we managed.

Day 2 was a LOT of driving...up to an old rusty shipwreck, and then up to Indian Head, a lookout point on the northern part of the island. In the afternoon, we went to Eli creek, which is a flowing fresh water creek that you can float down..luckily it got sunny for that!

Night 2 was a bit of a challenge because of the rain, so we got a little wet....and so did ALL the camping gear we had to pack into our truck the next morning..ugh. The last day we hiked 45 min in to Lake Wabby, which is a really quiet Lake that is slowly being filled in by the giant sand dunes pouring down into one side of it. Interesting bit of info for ya; the lake is actually so deep that they can't find the bottom of it...kind of eerie! Definitely a unique scene! We had to make our way back to the ferry, so we decided to stop off again for lunch at Lake Mackenzie because we liked it so much :)

And that was it!! We survived Fraser Island, SO happy we did it, had a great experience! We leave for Whitsundays tomorrow, yay!Wish us well and good weather!!

Love and hugs,

L and L