Fraser Island Day 1 We were put into groups of 11 for the trip to Fraser and had to get up at 7 to pack all our food and camping stuff on the jeep for the 2night trip. Fraser is a massive sand island with one of the worlds only rainforests to grow on sand and because of its rough terrain (sand dunes, beach roads etc) there were quite a few safety DVD?s to watch.Unfortunatley our group must have taken all the videos too much to heart as I had never seen such a cautious approach to anything. We didn?t even reach 70kmph on the 80kmph sand beach ?..until I took the wheel. This was almost the end of the trip for me because without doing anything reckless I was told in no uncertain terms that people weren?t happy with me driving near the legal limit (apart from the 95kmph burst I did to test the performance). So right away I knew we were with a binch of timid geeks.They were nice enough people, but dispite their ages (late teens - mid twenties) the main concern during the 3 days was where to camp and what to eat. This was a shame because we had a 4x4 jeep on one of the best places to really rag it around, and other groups did just that.Anyways enough of my anger?..The island was really nice and we took a drive to the northern headland where we swam in a fresh water creek. Occasionally you can see shark/whale feeding frenzies from the headland cliffs. No luck with the feeding, but we did see small sharks and a stingray from the cliff top.Before the sun set we set up camp with the 2 other jeeps from our hostel. I?ve never put a tent up without help before and unfortunately nor had Wes or Duncs. Eventually we got there and had a few beers and the girls cooked a spag bol. We had been told that Fraser was one of the only places you can see the Milky Way, or the full Milky Way (something like that). We didn?t know exactly what that means until we do some research, but it sounded good and I think it might have something to do with the number of stars you could see. Ive never seen so many and every few minutes there was a shooting star! I don?t know exactly what causes a shooting star either, or why there were so many, but the biggest one of the night was so impressive. Using the knowledge about stars I picked up from Ian and Anna in NZ we were able to explain to our group how to find the ?Southern Cross? which made me feel a bit like Patrick Moore J ?.obviously that went down well with the geeks.In order to keep to the itinerary the tour company gave us we had to be up at 6am so we were in bed by 1am for a change.