Fraser Frollicks

We just got back from our 3 day safari in Fraser Island, which is like a bit sandpit for adults to play like children in. A group of 9 of us where entrusted with a rather nice 4X4, some camping gear, supplies and booze and off we went on Tuesday morning.

One of our main worries was that we'd end up lumbered with a bunch of idiots or weirdos in our group, and that it would be just like Big Brother. As it happenned we couldn' have asked for a better group, Chris must have been particularly pleased to be surrounded by 7 females! As for me...it could have been my worse nightmare, but these girls (and the one other guy) where soooooooo LOVELY!!!
The group was made up of 3 Sweedish girls, 1 Swiss girl, 2 girls from London, an Irish lad and the two of us.
Everybody bent over backwards to contribute and help out and we had the best time together.
Apart from the obvious thrill and fun of driving on sand (and getting bogged down about 10 times)we saw some beautiful things, here are a few:

Lake Wabby: When Lou Lou (one of the Sweedish girls) saw the lake she said "What a funky colour!!" . It's bright green and had loads of cat fish swimming around it, and it is slowly being engulfed by sand, so despite being told not to, we had to run down the dune and jump in the lake (which was v shallow and resulted in bum bruises but a lot of laughter).

Eli Creek: A fresh water creek with a white sandy bottom and the cleanest water I've ever seen, we walked all the way down it.

Indian heads: A view point up a mountain where you can see stunning scenery and watch the sherks, rays and turtles in the torquise water below. It's breath taking and it makes you which you could get in the water on the beach (apart from when you see a bull shark or a hammer head!!!).

Champagne Pool: A huge natural rock pool, when you sit on the ledge closest to where the waves break they create a big puddle of foamy fizzy water in the rock pool, it feels like having a bath in Champagne...unfortunately it doesn't taste like it.

Lake MacKenzie: HEAVEN! Fine white sand that you can clean your jewellry in, and crystal clear fresh water. It's so pure and perfect, it was a real highlight of the trip.

Luckerly we only saw one sanke from afar, but were told that there was a brown snake that goes out deliberately to attack and was being looked for by the rangers because it had been in camp but gone missing recently - yuck!
We didn't see any of the famous dingoes but maybe we where being too loud playing Sweedish drinking games.

If you ever come over this neck of the woods Fraser Island is an absolute must, it was Fantastic!

Sam