Fraser Island

We went to fraser Island yesterday and it was amazing! Its the largest island in the world that is made just of sand so all the roads were made of sand amd everything around it (although we were quick to point out every time we saw some concrete). Because the roads over there are very very bumpy the only vehicles alowed on the island are 4x4s so our bus was a mix between a bus and a lorry (AKA a 'Borry') - these are very fun and if your sat at the back (as we did) you fly a good 10 feet off your seat every time you go over a huge bump (maybe slightly over exagerated). The day started at 7ish with a walk through the sandy rainforest and then we went to the main beach called 45 mile beach - the cool thing about this beach is that it is also the main highway on fraser island so everyone is driving up and down the beach weaving between people with their deck chairs out enjoying the sun. Also, the beach is an airport aswell so the cars have to dodge the planes coming down as well which is kind of crazy! The next thing we did in the day after we had driven to the end was go one one of these planes! They are 7 seaters but in ours it was just the 4 of us and one other girl and they take you up over the sea where you can see through the clear blue waters sharks and sting rays and things like that and then they flew us over the main island so we could look down onto the beach and the lakes! After this we spent the afternoon at lake Mckenzie which is probably one of the most amazing places I've been. It has a white beach around the edge and then the lake is a fresh water lake that was very very very very very very blue and clear! Whilst in the water we met some guys that were amazied by our tower builing skills (matt on toms shoulders, tom on joshs shoulders and then to finish it off myself picking them all up to build the best tower ever - not quite perfected yet though!) and we grouped together to make a tower of 8 people - probably my prodest acheivement ever.

Today we are travelling down in bruce and Sheila and tomorrow we are hopefully going to Australia Zoo for the day which should be a fun day out.

Will