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Doreen and I had set the alarm for 05:45 this morning so that we could get up and see the sunrise over the sea. We grabbed our torches and headed out down to the beach to wait for the sun to appear hoping that we wouldn't bump into any dingo’s along the way.
The sunrise this morning was not very spectacular, but I did manage to get a couple of photos of some fishermen who were also up early. Walking along the beach a little bit we did see some fresh dingo tracks and Doreen wrote in the sand "Fraser Island 2010" for me to take a picture off, but the only way I could get a photo without my shadow appearing in the photo was to take it upside down and rotate the photo. That’s why it may look a little weird.
Some information about Fraser Island today.....
Fraser Island, is an island located along the southern coast of Queensland, Australia, approximately 300 kilometres (190 mi) north of Brisbane. Its length is about 120 kilometres (75 mi) and its width is approximately 24 kilometres (15 mi). It was inscribed as a World Heritage site in 1992. The island is considered to be the largest sand island in the world at 1840 km². It is also Queensland's largest island, Australia's sixth largest island and the largest island on the East Coast of Australia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraser_Island
After breakfast of cereals and pancakes we packed up the tents and headed to our first destination of the day. But along the way we noticed a strange noise coming from the rear wheel. Somehow, we had managed to get a puncture on soft sand?? We signalled our guide who was up ahead of us and he drove back and volunteered to get sandy and swapped the flat for the spare wheel on the back door. Once changed we set off along the 20km stretch of sand until we came to Indian Head, a rock outcrop where we could get excellent views of the beach in both directions and could even see sharks and manta rays in the sea below us.
A change of drivers again and off to our next destination which was the Champagne pools, which was the only safe saltwater swimming area on the whole island. They were basically a set of pools that filled up at high tide and as the waves crashed over the rock and filled the pools they bubbled like champagne, hence the name. Unfortunately, when we got there they were all mostly fully of sand and there was only about a meter of water in a very small pool. Usually when the wind and tide are right the whole area is filled deep with water, or so we were told. The one pool that did have some water in also has some fish in it so I managed to get a few underwater photos and even tried an underwater video, so the visit was not entirely wasted.
We all headed back to the car and our guide had prepared lunch for us, which today was ,much better than yesterday. He has cooked up beef burgers, with cheese, pineapple rings, salad (but not for me, yuck!) and BBQ sauce. Enough for 2 each, perfect!
On from the pools we headed back down the beach towards the Fraser Island Beach Resort as the German couple who complained last night about having to sleep in the tent, refused to stay in a tent again tonight and asked our guide to check them into the resort which cost them an additional $100 for the night. Ha ha!
We found a sheltered spot just up from the beach in the dunes so that we could set up camp again for the night. Once we had the tents set up we grabbed a fishing rod and went off to catch some fish for dinner. As you can see from the pictures, neither Gary, Doreen or myself caught anything big enough to actually eat. We did catch a few but they were all around the same size.
Dinner tonight was steak, sautéed potatoes and some vegetables, very civilised for camp cooking. We finished off our beers during dinner and then headed off to the Fraser Island Beach Resort for a few more beers and some games of pool. As our guide new the manager here, he (and only him) got free beer but he did manage to get the pool table opened for us so we could play for free.
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