Fraser Island

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With the rain well behind us we arrived back in Hervey Bay after 3 awesome, though exhausting days on Fraser Island. Here is our story...

After having to delay our trip for a day while the damage from 2 cyclones that hit the island was cleared up, we woke bright and early to meet our group, load up our stuff and collect our 4x4. Our group consisted of an Irish bloke, a German lad, 6 German girls and us three. The only eligible drivers were Dave and Mark, so, between them they would spend the next 3 days chauffeuring the group around some tough off road terrain and beaches. Some of the girls didn't have complete trust in this and requested to sit in the front to make sure the boys didn't play too hard with their new toy! First stop once landed on the island was lake McKenzie, a lovely fresh water lake with a white sandy beach where we took a refreshing dip. Some bumpy Island tracks took us to for a lovely drive up the beach later that day to where we would camp. We cooked dinner and drank plenty of goon (ridiculously cheap boxed wine) and watched a rare lunar eclipse type thing where the moon went dark pink, something to do with Mars (the next one is in 280 years apparently!). After more goon, some team bonding and a brief encounter with the local Dingos, we hit the hay ready for our early start the next day.

We were awoken at 5 am on the dot by the uber efficient German girls (It is no myth). We had a strict schedule to follow! We headed in the jeep further down the beach to a lookout and a place called champagne rocks (a name given due to the white cascading water made by waves on the rocks). We spent another night on the beach that day and more bonding sessions took place with the aid of the goon.

The final day included a great off road drive and finished up on a high by visiting lake Wabbi, a fresh water lake surrounded by huge, steep sand dunes. This was a great place to catch a few rays and lark about before our ferry back to the mainland.

Much fun was had and the group was great fun, all will be missed! This was without a doubt one of the highlights of the trip so far, bring on the Whitsundays!!

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Photos

Rainbow Beach
The boys on a massive sand dune

Lake McKenzie
The boys at Lake McKenzie

Sunrise
Enjoying our hangovers a little too much at 5:30 am. Kuckuk.

Indian Head
The boys with Michi and Paul at Indian Head. Dave has his jeans round his ankles. Mental.

Champagne Pools
The whole Fraser Island crew at Champagne Pools.

The 4x4
The Fraser Crew and the Land Cruiser. She was a beauty.

Comments

[Chris Hill]

Photos
Mum and I have just checked out the shots from Queensland! Pretty sweet; good to hear from you and understand why it's been a little while this time ;) enjoy the beginning of September in Aussieland before NZ... xx

[Grace]

i hate you all
i hate you alllllllllllllll(exclamation mark) why does my Older Brother Hazh always feel the need to point in any picture, you can only justify it if you've just seen Jesus in a sarong doing the hula for Granny. Looks like your having fun but don't eat yellow snow, oh go on then. xgrace

[Al]

YES Hazh!