Fraser Island Adventure

After our Whitsunday Adventure it was an overnight bus journey for another adventure with a 2 night trip planned at Fraser Island .

We had no idea what to expect as we are just following our itinerary what we were given. Turned out we'd be sharing a 4WD with 7 other people and camping in the bush.

We were up early the first morning of the trip and briefed about what to expect from this horrendously treacherous island. Basically everything is designed to kill you.

James and I were responsible for collecting the booze that our group had ordered. Apparently while we were doing this the drivers in our group were subjected to a terrifying video on how not to kill the rest of us in the car.

We were all excited heading off and taking the barge to the island. In case you have never been (it's surprising how many people have!) the island is made entirely of very fine soft sand. There are no roads, just very bumpy tracks through the forest and rain forest.

The beach was also a road and we were allowed to go a bit faster here. Nevertheless this area was also fraught with peril. Dingoes watched and followed us. We were ravaged by horse flies (nasty horrible things) and the sand is very soft and unstable. At one point on our first day we drove right up a sandbank so the car was at a 45 degree angle and nearly tipped.

We were camping at K'gari that was run by Aboriginals. They were lovely and friendly and liked a chat. The toilets there were better than any arachnid house at the zoo. Gigantic spiders resided there, huntsman's aparently. Beautiful in a scary way.

Over the course of the next 2 days we went swimming in a creek that flowed down to the sea, swam in Allom fresh water lake with turtles (rather brown water tho), waked to Indian Head in the searing sun and sat in a rock pool surrounded by deadly jellyfish. But the best part by far was after the hellish journey to Lake Mackenzie, when we threw ourselves into the water.

Lake Mackenzie is also fresh water and is one of the worlds top 10 beaches. We couldn't remove ourselves. We'd spent 2 solid days being permanently filthy and now we could be clean in the cleanest water known to man!!!

In our opinion we had the best group of all the groups that were staying at the camp. All the others without exception played drinking games and were rather loud and racous. All very obvious. We all got on without the aid of alcohol and had a laugh all the time. We were 2 English, 4 Danish, 1 South Korean, 1 Austrian and 1 Dutch. All speaking English. Mortifying isn't it.

So we all swapped facebook details so we can all stay in touch and crashed on to our next destination, the Gold Coast. Which is where we are now.

For the first time in weeks we can actually go in the sea without wearing a stinger suit. All our tours are complete and we don't have to get up at silly time in the morning to be anywhere for the next 2 days.

There is a Wet N Wild and a Sea World but they are a bit pricey and we're trying to budget for the rest of our stay in Oz. Heading to Sydney in 2 days where there are actually some people that we know - hurrah!!!