Steph's Travelogue: Day 8: Fraser Island

Today we spent a whole day exploring Fraser Island. Typically we are offered, as an optional, a half-day 4-wheel drive tour of the island, but we chose to upgrade to the full-day and are SOOOO happy we did. Fraser Island, being the world’s largest sand island, doesn’t have real roads – they’re all sand…and not real smooth. Thank goodness for seatbelts, let’s just say that! We headed to the eastern side of the island to 75 mile beach and sped north to Eli Creek. The waves from the Pacific were just crashing on the beach as people fished and also drove their 4-wheel drive vehicles. We then headed up to The Pinacles to see the multi-colored sand dunes. Our last stop before lunch was the big shipwreck. Soooo cool to see that boat just lying on the beach. After lunch we headed to Central Station where they organized their logging industry. We took a nice hike thru the woods and then made our last stop at Lake Makenzie. When we were here 7 yrs ago, there was a nice, sandy beach and the bluest water I have ever seen. Well, Mother Nature took away the beach – literally the stairs fall into the lake. The water has ‘magical powers’ and turns your skin so soft…and when combined with the sand makes a great jewelry cleaner. We got back to the resort in time for sunset. Had yummy pizza for dinner and then did a bonfire. Those Aussies do need to work on their bonfires skills as they gave us skewers to roast our marshmallows – they weren’t long enough, so told the kids to watch their eyebrows. Went dingo hunting along the beach but found none. Luckily we saw 3 of them earlier in the day. Did you know dingos love pineapple?!?! Yep, me either. Tomorrow we head back to the main land and start our trek south. We’ll be hitting Surfer’s Paradise next and arrive in Sydney on Saturday.

Lovin’ every minute of it…

~steph J