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Published: March 30th 2011
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Rain appears to be following us on this trip and is determined to rain on us everyday. But we wont let it get us down!!!A courtesy bus came to pick us up nice and early in the morning. After picking up all the passengers we headed for the ferry terminal. It's kind of like a barge. We sat upstairs in the seating area where a big fluffy orange cat seemed to call home. He would let you pet him but he did not seem at all interested in any of the people on board. Once on Fraser island we hopped onto our 4x4 bus and headed out. The whole island is sand and rainforest. It's unique because it's a rainforest living in sand.
One of the purest breed of Dingo's call this island home. Dingo's look a lot like dogs but they are wild and can be very vicious. (example: a dingo ate a baby back in the 1970's). We did see a couple of dingos from the bus on our way through the bush but I didn't manage to get a great photo of it.
Our first stop was the beautiful Lake Mackenzie. It's a freshwater lake on
the island and the water is stunningly clear and warm. Dad had a quick swim while mom and I just put our feet in. We spent about an hour at the lake. It would have been so amazing to see it in the sunlight. We then hopped back on the bus and did a little rainforest walk. There used to be a big forestry industry on the island before it became a World heritage site. There were a couple of old houses that the loggers would have lived in.
We were all excited for our next stop: Lunch! There is a resort on the island called Eurong Beach Resort and they put on a big buffet lunch for the tours. We had an hour for lunch before we hopped back on the bus. Dad decided to sit up in the front of the bus next to the driver. We headed for the beach and drove right along the oceanfront. We drove out to a spot called the Pinnacles which is a sand formation with all kinds of different tints of reddish golden sand.
We stopped by the Maheno shipwreck. You can read all about it if you google
it. But we snapped a ton of pictures of the rusted old ship. We also stopped at Eli Creek. It's a creek that leads straight into the ocean dumping 8 million litres of water a day into the ocean. But it's quite shallow so that you can walk in it. In fact, in order to really check it out we had to cross it, so off came the shoes and we waded into the water, it came to just above my knees. The water was so clear. We also learnt that it apparently takes a 16 km/h wind to move one grain of sand. Dad and decided to walk up the creek instead of on the side to get back to the bus. Was a bit deeper, good thing I had my swim shorts on.
We stopped back at Eurong resort while our driver cleaned off our bus of all the salt water from the beach. We grabbed an ice cream and took some pictures of the rainbow lorikeets in the trees. They are very colorful parrot like birds but man do they make a lot of noise!!! I got a couple good pictures of them.
After that,
it was back to the ferry terminal. It was a fun day but I think why most people come to Fraser island is the experience of camping and staying overnight on the island as well as self-driving on the sand roads. It was great to do a tour and see it but it would have been really fun to drive ourselves and stay the night on the island.
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