Fraser Island

Hello everyone!! I have 14 minutes of internet left so this will be a quick one! (No pics yet, will add later - sorry!)

Fraser Island - March 15-17

We went on a 4x4 self guided tour with 6 other people in our bright pink 4x4 lol! It was really fun, although our group was mediocre (although we really liked some people we met in the other 2 pink groups travelling with us!)

Fraser Island, we learned, basically would NOT be accessible without 4x4s. The roads through the inner, forested part of the island are TERRIBLE...like Cat Lake road but 10 times worse! Huge drop offs and pot holes...tons of fun to drive on, but not so fun to be the passenger in the back seat haha! We spent a lot of time driving on the beach as well which was really fun. You can go up to 80 at some parts!


First day we went to Lake Wobby, which we found out halfway along was a 30-45 minute walk...oops, shouldn't have carried a cooler full of beer! Mike and the only other guy had to carry it most of the way haha. (I helped for about 5 minutes.) The lake was really nice though, beautiful green in colour and sand dunes on one side. Full of giant catfish that nibbled your toes :) hehe. After that we went to our first camp site on the side of the beach. That was pretty fun, no toilets or anything, everything got pretty sandy, but that night it started to POUR (and when it rains here, it REALLY pours) right in the middle of cooking our veggies for dinner! We all just scattered into the tents and only came out a bit later to try to save the veggies and anything we left out. Was pretty funny, but kind of ruined partying outside for that night haha.

Next day we went up to Indian Head and took a 30 min walk to Champagne pools,


basically sandy tidal pools that get a misting splash from the waves crashing into the rocks separating them from the ocean. Those were really nice. Then we stopped and looked at "The Pinnacles", cool coloured (red, orange and brown) formations, then a cool shipwreck

and a creek that you could walk up and float down. That night camped in a campground inland (with washrooms and sinks!) and partied with some other groups we met. Was really fun.

Last day spent at Lake McKenzie, a very large, gorgeous lake. Got a bit burnt.

St Patty's day went out with some really cool Irish and Scottish we met on our pink 4x4s to an Irish pub in Hervey Bay. Was tonnnns of fun, although went to bed at 4am and had to wake up at 7 for bus!