Fraiser Island

This might be long...im sorry, but its worth it i promise!

So a couple of nights ago we met our groups, there was 16 of us total, but we were in 2 cars so 8 in each, my car was composed of myself, silvano (but was soon dubbed silvy, hes irish) and a group of 6 german 19yr old girls travelling together...buh. The other group was pretty awesome, 3 ppl from ireland (marty, james, and mary), 2 girls from england (Zoe and Angela), 2 girls from sweden (Sanna and Jenny), and another guy from england (Chris). So we grocery shopped the night before to prep for the morning, and got going the next day around 830 (up at 730 for the free breakfast tho).
After packing up our 4x4s the our 2 trucks headed off to fraiser island. Obviously, i chose to drive, so Silvy and I were the only drivers in our car, therefore we had the front seats and the german girls had the back. Leaving the hostel, I drove first, and immediately drove made a right turn into the rightside lane, unfortunately, they drive on the left in Australia, so we were off to a good start hahaha.
Fraiser is a national park, so there werent really any roads there, the one road that we had to start on was crazy bumpy and the german girls in the back were flying all over the place. The first day had us driving along the beach towards the village Eroug and then towards lake McKenzie...driving on the beach was AMAZING, going 80-90km next to the surf was definitely something ill be forgetting quickly. We werent allowed to swim in the ocean because there are alot of sharks and jellyfish around the island, so the lake was somewhat inland, but that was still really sweet to drive along. Lake McKenzie itself was GORGEOUS. WHITE WHITE sand, just like Seista Key, if not whiter, and the water was turquoise, just beautiful...and while were were there the next morning a dingo came wondering along the beach and started steal ppls food, they were actually pretty ballsy coming that close to ppl, but the park ranger said they wont bite unless theres pups around.
So the first night we camped out and the 2 groups stayed together, it was really sweet. The original intention was that because silvy and I drove and packed/unpacked the top of the van, the girls would do the cooking and cleaning, sounds fair...but that DEFINITELY did not happen. On top of driving all day, unloading and loading the roof of the truck, I made the hamburgers the first night (which were awesome), and the pasta the next night, and on top of it all, We had to tell them to clean up and every little thing...they werent all bad, there were a few who would help out, but overall, im glad the other group was there, cuz there would have been at leat 1 or 2 germans remaining on the island.
The next day we went to the lake again and then drove up the beach to the champange pools, theyre some shallow spots along the beach that the waves flow over and makes it look like bubbling champange. The beach was about 75km long, so there was alot of beach driving, so it was really sweet. That night we camped at K'Gari, which was an aboriginal site, so I learned how to play the didgeridoo, and actually got some sound out of it!! Nick (the guy who ran teh campsite) was showing us the spirits and ghosts that appear in our photos, so once i find somewhere to upload everything look out for the ghosts, theyll getcha.
We had to wake up at 530 the next morning to drive along the beach before the tide came up and washed out the parts we could drive on, so I drove us to Lake Wabby (or at least as close as we could get) were we had some breakfast, then hiked the 2.5km to get to the lake through the forrest.
Lake Wabby is this tiny little lake at the bottom of this MASSIVE sand dune. Like huge, huge sand dune, and when i climbed to the top, it was just a massive desert, kinda nuts especially with all the forrest around it. They said the lake will be gone within the next 100yrs or something like that because the dune slowly rolls into the lake. The flies were pretty bad at the lake, but we were feeding the dead flies to the cat fish in the lake, and the minnows were eating all the dirt and dead skin off the bottom of my feet, so now theyre nice and soft again hahaha
So overall the camping trip was really really really awesome, made alot of friends for when i head to the UK in the fall, so thats even better! The pictures are pretty sweet too, I just need to find somewhere to put them up.
Had a good alst night in the hostel, finished off the goon we didnt get to on the trip with some girls from Toronto and a guy from the UK, so even more new friends! And obviously continued to hang out with the group that I was camping with, so good times all round! Its about 1:30pm here right now (march 1st, 20 more days til my birthday!!) and im catching the 3:30 up to airlie, so ill be arriving there around 915 tomorrow morning, then headed off to sail the Whitsundays and go snorkeling at the great barrier reef on tuesday, so there will be another big gap in blogs.
My ipod finally made it to Brisbane!! so just 8 more days until i finally have music again (THANKS AGAIN PARENTS!!!) then off to india!!
SORRY THIS WAS SO LONG, ALOT TO GET IN