fraser island

i found a tour that would take us from caloundra up to fraser island for a day trip so we decided to go for it. they picked us up infront of the house at 5:30am and started the LONG drive to fraser island picking up more people along the way. we got to noosa around 7am and then across a river along the beach and up to fraser island


the day was pretty cold and windy(i never took my hoodie off) and the sky was a bit gray (but the only rain we got was a little bit while we were driving towards home)

while we were on the island we drove up to lake makenzie where we had time to have a swim if we wanted (zac went in, no way i was gonna put more than my feet in). the beach was amazing at the lake-- soft, fine, white silica sand and the water was green/blue (even prettier when the sun is shining--i've seen postcards). they had a bbq for lunch (fish or steaks plus beer, wine and soft drinks and salads). they catered quite well for me and zac's vegetarian lunch, they wrapped our vegie burgers up in foil so they wouldn't get meat or fish juices on them and our guide even made sure he used clean tongs to hand them to us 8) plus they left a large portion of the colslaw with no mayo on it so zac could eat it.

after lunch we went for a walk through the wanggoolba creek rainforest. the water in the creek there was so clear it was almost invisible (you look down at it and you just see sand until you look really closely and see that there is water running over it). there were all sorts of amazing tropical plants and vines running up and down.
after the walk we started heading back home again, stopping along the beach for afternoon tea.
we didn't get to see too much wildlife (the day before they saw dingos, whales and dolphins). we saw one dingo (the only one on the island with a radio collar for tracking-- we just spotted him along the "roadside"). saw a few different birds and me and zac found a seahorse skeleton on the beach during moring tea.
i'd highly recommend the tour we went on for anyone wanting to do an organized tour of fraser island: fraser island adventure tours. we're definately gonna try to get back to fraser island and do a self-drive tour one day (even though our tour guide was really against all the backpackers coming onto the island with their hired 4wd). its nice to be able to do things at your own pace and stop when you want for photo opps and stuff.