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This morning we didn't set an alarm and we were all up at a fairly respectable 8am woken by the smell of bacon and eggs being cooked. We were also not the only ones who smelt the cooking; we had a couple of visitors come to investigate the smell. Yes, we were visited by a couple of dingoes and luckily for us they sat up on one of the dunes looking down at us and then eventually walked off, no doubt disappointed they didn’t get any food.
Today was going to be quite a short day as we had to catch the ferry at 14:30 back to the mainland, so we packed up pretty quickly aster breakfast and headed on our way to Lake Bowarrady, another fresh water lake on the island. This time we had a 30 minute walk through a small forest and over the sand dunes either way to reach the lake.
The lake was surrounded by forest on one side and high sand dunes on the other, we could see plenty of big fish swimming around too. There was a no diving sign just beside us and guess what, yep, you always get someone who dives in anyway. This time it was Doreen, see picture. Luckily she was good enough at diving not to hit the bottom as it was not very deep.
After the walk back from the lake at our allotted time we headed back to the cars where we drove back along the beach and through the forest only stopping at the oldest tree on the island for a group photo to meet up with the ferry. We had just enough time while we waited in line to eat lunch which today consisted of cheese and ham sandwiches again. Not quite as nice as yesterday’s burgers, but it did the job.
We got back to the YHA hostel in Hervey Bay at around 16:00, unpacked the cars and received a free t-shirt, which will no doubt go in the bin at some stage as I would never wear it. It was raining quite hard for the first time on my trip, so we all said our goodbyes and those who were staying checked back into the YHA for the night.
For dinner I drove into town and grabbed a pizza with Doreen and then we met up in the hostel bar with Aaran and Gary for a couple of drinks and played some pool.
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