The first day we were all so excited to get out of Lismore and enjoy a week long vacation on the beach! It was roughly a 5 1/2 hour bus ride to the town next to the island. Then the fun wasn't over quite yet. We had to take an hour long ferry ride just to get to Fraser Island. We were all to excited to get there that it didn't bother us to much.
Once we got to the island, we were greeted with a little train like car that took us to the reception part of the resort. At first, we all thought this is where we were staying for the week, and it was absolutely gorgeous. It had a huge pool, hot tub, restaurants, everything! But turns out it was just our meeting spot. The places we were staying at were up the hill that they call "Heart attack hill". Great name huh! We stayed in some cabin like dorms, with four people in each room, which weren't all that bad besides the fact that lizards were running around everywhere.
By the way, this island was impossible not to get a bug bite.
Anyways, the first day of our adventure started at 8:00am. We had an awesome tour guide named Karl, and made it really fun. He picked us up in a huge bus type car that used to be used in the military so you can imagine what it was like. When we first started driving off it was a pretty smooth ride. Once we hit the foot deep sand roads, it was another story. Fraser Island is the world's largest sand island. This bus ride was indescribable. It would almost tip every five minutes on the sand paths, and you would be bouncing out of your seat the entire bus ride. We had to be on this thing for at least a couple hours a day.
After thinking we were all going to be sitting on the beach all week getting a nice tan, we were told that we were going to take a 45 minute walk to a freshwater lake. It felt like forever just getting there because the paths were strictly made of sand, which made it difficult to walk. We got to the lake and all you could see was sand. It was a large sand dune that stopped and dropped off into the lake. It was very gorgeous. The lake was freezing cold, but it was good to finally see a lake and it reminded me of Minnesota.
The lakes just kept getting better and better! After the first one, we went to another freshwater lake. This next one was super blue crystal clear water, with light sandy beaches.
Finally, Lake Mackenzie was the last lake we went to, and it was by far my favorite one. It had the lightest colored water, and white beaches. It seemed like an ocean and it was crazy that it was freshwater. Our tour guide Karl said that the water would soften your hair and if you rubbed the sand on your skin it would make it smoother. It would even clean your jewelry. I don't know if I noticed that, but still it's neat!
Sometime in between all the lakes, we got the opportunity to take an airplane ride over the entire island. It was one of those little planes and I have always wanted to ride on one, so I thought that Fraser would be the perfect place to do so! It was really gorgeous views, and we could see how many sand dunes there really were on the island.
Also while in Fraser, every night was our time to do whatever we wanted. We started a couple of the nights off by watching the sunset in the bay. It was amazing!
Another interesting place that we went to was the champagne pools. They were water holes that were made from the coffee rock, and the ocean fills the pools up all day. It was really cool until I saw a couple jelly fish floating around in them!
It's a remarkable trip to Fraser Island. You had lot's of enjoy on Island. All the photo graphs are beautiful & amazing.
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