Fraser Island

Feb 24-27
Travelled from Airlie Beach on an overnight bus to Hervey Bay and then caught another bus to Rainbow Beach. So about Fraser Island.... its the world's largest sand island and in 1992 was listed on the World Heritage site. Had to attend a briefing--met my new travel mates for the next 2 nights: 2 Swedish, 3 English, # Frenchies, 1 Dutch and me. We were doing a self-drive 4 wheel drive, 2 nights/2 days camping. I was a bit disappointed when I realized that you needed to drive standard in order to drive the truck :( So it's on my list of things to do when I get home.
Day 1: Drove up to Indian Head with our packed vehicle. I hung out with Steffi and Georgina and was rather annoyed with the Swedish girls who did absolutely nothing. We also drove up to Lake McKenzie, probably the most beautiful lake I've ever seen in my life--an inland, perched lake, flour-white sand, and sparkling blue water.
The tent held 3 of us and I was the lucky one in the middle. Lets just say my neck was so stiff in the morning, and I could barely move my back. Not in the middle tonight!
Day 2: Woke up to rain. Again. Had to pack everything wet and drove to Lake Wabby, which is the deepest lake on Fraser. The 2.4 km walk to the lake was beautiful. This lake is so different than yesterday's.... greenish water, cat fish swimming and little ones nibbling on your toes, with a huge sand dune to lie on!
Samuel, one of the frenchies, was a crazy driver, going all over the sand bumps at top speed--again, annoying at the time, but pretty funny now that I look back on it!