Fraser Island Part 1

On Friday morning we were up early to leave on a tour of Fraser Island - the world's biggest sand island which has a 70Km beach and rainforest.

We met the group at the Transit centre and headed on a 3 hour drive in the crampest of 4 WD vehicles. I thought it would have been more comfortable if I was smaller. Much smaller.

Our guide wasn't the best of guides - captain charisma was his name we assigned to him. I think he was a Bob Marley wannabe. He had been in Oz for 4 years but his Somerset tone was still very evident.

We got to Rainbow Beach which is named so because of the coloured sand - a bit like Alum Bay on the IOW, we had a hour or so to laze around before we got back into the car and headed down the beach. The beaches are highways so it seemed strange to have lots of cars doing 120K down a beautiful golden beach, the ride was bumpy! We caught a ferry over to the island and again continued down the beach, we managed to see some humpback whales in the distance and a wild dingo which crossed out path. We stopped at a ship wreck and a natural spring creek which we all waded down in the sunshine. From here we went to Lake Wabby, a lake in the middle of the sand dunes - it was a long walk but the views were amazing, there was so much sand, fields and fields of sand. I hope my photos do it justice. It was a long and hard walk and by the time we got the lake the sun was going down so the colours weren't as vibrant as I had hoped, we had about 5 minutes before we had to turn around and come back again.

(running out of time so will update day 2 on fraser as soon as I can ) x