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Hi all,
Well Fraser Island what a sandy experience!
The evening before we left for Fraser Island I met the group I was in at the Kookaburra Hostel to have a very boring talk about safety etc whilst on the island. Unfortunately there was only one guy in the group...good for him though I guess! We were a very multi-cutural group with people from all over the place. The trip is a three day camping trip where you drive yourself about the island 4-wheel drive without a guide, it's great fun.
We saw loads of different areas of the island, my favourite spots being Indian Head, which are rocks high above the sea where you can look out and see sharks, turtles and rays in the water below....not very friendly for those with vertigo though! I also very much liked Lake Mackenzie (which for some reason I kept calling Lake Alexander!) which was a huge, brilliant clear blue lake circled by fine white sand. We left Lake Mackenzie until the last day to visit which I am very pleased about, as the other spots would have seemed very insignificant had we been here first. Also we arrived there very early in the morning and there were only 4 other people there when we arrived, so the place truely looked like paradise, unlike the tenerife beach it turned into in the afternoon!
The 4-wheel driving was awesome fun, especially as there were only 5 of us driving out of the 10. I drove through the island on bumpy track, but my favourite time was driving along the beach. It was great.
Both evenings were very funny. The first night was the drunkered night. All the girls had bought 4 litres of really nice wine (!!!) to bring to the island, and a lot of this was consumed during the first evening. Lots of laughter and several attempts to get one of our group, Jo to go to bed, when she really didn't want to, yet kept falling asleep in random people's camps....sounds familiar actually! Playing drinking games when most people in the group didn't speak English as first language was hillarious and meant that several people got very, very drunk! Emily fell off her chair!
The next day Emily and Jo seemed a little hungover - we had to stop the van for Emily to go throw up over sand dunes, ha! Though luckily most of the drivers seemed to be ok!
The second evening was much more tame, though a few drinking games were played. Also the gas lamp we had broke, so we had to use the car headlights the whole night,, making sure we turned it on and off at regular intervals so it stayed charged (yeh whatever, some guy from another camp told us what to do!) I and three others ended up chatting with some Aussies in another camp where I learnt that once you finished your goon (very bad wine in a box) you could take out the foil container, blow it up and use it as a pillow! Genious!
Luckily we all made it back to the hostel in one piece, where we were charged for breaking the 's*** Shovel'....it was duff from the beginning I tells ye! and that evening all had dinner together and again had a few(!) drinks. There was a bit of an electrical storm that night and all the lights went out, so we had to drink by the light of Lawrence's head light! Fun for all!
I met Karen that evening too, who I had previously met in Cairns and decided to meet up again to travel further down the coast together...horrah a travelling companion!
Anyway take care
Lynds x x
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