Fraser Island

The following day we were up early and started packing up our 4wd Toyota Landcruiser for extreme sandy conditions.

The girl helping us didnt really know what to do so we improvised with how everything should pack together and got it right when the guy in charge came round. I was the first designated driver and we all set off on a convoy to the barge. Once on Fraser we set off at high speed heading up the island trying to beat the tide as you cannot drive at certain times. Driving on sand was relativily easy although some people in our group could not grasp it. I drove all the way up to a place called Eli creek where we stopped for lunch and a little dip then continued on to the Maheno ship wreck. Finally we set up camp a little further north and began drowing our goon and beers. The strange thing about Fraser and Oz is that it feels like summer but it gets dark by 6. So on our first night we were all plastered and ready for bed by 10, nightmare! I slept in the van as i couldnt be bothered to sleep in a tent and its a good thing i did as when moring came we had a huge thunderstorm and everything got soaked.

Indian Head was our first destination to try and spot some sharks but we were unsucessful, just a few large shadows. After that we headed to lake Mackenzie for a dip in tea tree filled waters. After an hour of serious 4wd we made it all shaken and groggy. We swam and saoked in the revitalising waters and then left to set up camp, after the hour return journey from the lake. This time we started drinking later, but i got screwed on goon and felt like shite, i think we made it to 1230 this time though.

In the moring we went to lake Wabby, which is surrounded by huge sand dunes, me and Rasta borrowed someones bodyboard and went down a track they had made, with a little ramp at the end. Rastrick went down no problem, and skidded along the water. I however decided to take running leap and flew down a little skewif and hit the ramp at high speed, i proceeded to fly through the air however i became aware that i had left the board behind, so ended up doing a flip into the water while the board slowly skidded along the surface, i reckon it looked awesome from the top though!

On our return we noticed a nasty crack in the windshield, we got stung for 250 bucks when we got back to the garage and we dont even know how it got there. We didnt have many bad sand moments, we got stuck twice in the sand but managed to quickly get out before we dug ourselves in too deep, unlike one van we passed so deep they were trying to dig out the axles themselves.

4wd on Fraser and sailing the Whitsundays are the best things we have done so far in Oz, at the moment we are in Brisbane, but that post is for another time.