From Airlie beach we caught the Greyhound to Hervey Bay where we checked into Palace ready for our 4pm briefing about the trip. We met all the other people on the trip and did a mandatory food/alcohol shop that would last the 3 days!
The next morning we had to check out at 6am ready for a safety DVD at 6.30am ... As if we are going to remember anything anyone says to us that time in the morning!! The group split up into 4 vehicles, 8 in each truck with at least 2 drivers! Most of the people on the trip didn't want to drive (scardy cats) but we couldn't wait to get behind the wheel!! In our truck we had four other Germans, not surprising as 80% were German on the trip! Laura, Caroline, Moritz and Marioos were a good laugh! As the first one to drive our truck we all made our way to the barge and caught the ferry across to Fraser Island. During the crossing we saw dolphins jumping out of the water but we're still waiting to see a whale!
Once on Fraser Island Kate hopped in the drivers seat and we made our way to the first stop, Lake Barribeen. The lake was huge and as a perch lake, the only water to fill the lake came from the rain, little fact of the day there for you! We stopped for lunch at Capitol Station where we had our first sighting of a wild Dingo!! Because they can be quite aggressive we were advised not to go off on our own and if we did we had to always take a stick with us, now known as the Dingo Stick! The theme tune for the trip became Lady GaGas Disco stick ... I wanna take a ride on your Dingo Stick! It was v.funny at the time or at least we thought so!!
In the afternoon we visited Lake Wabby another massive lake surrounded by massive sand dunes! Hannah and Sarah also got to drive and we kept rotating after each stop! It started to rain by late afternoon and we had I rush back to the camp site, driving along the beach trying to beat the tide! Driving on sand with waves crashing on to the window screen is sooooo much fun!! We all loved the driving/ragging the truck over waves, sand dunes, rocks! It was sooo bumpy that your head hit the roof of the car All the time! The poor truck!! The poor Germans in the back to!
It rained heavy that night but with camp set up and a communal area for cooking, we had a BBQ for tea and had some tasty Kangaroo sausages!! and with our grates of ciders and litres of Goon (a delicious Australian boxed wine yummmm) we played ring of fire with the rest of the guys in our truck, Canada/Julianne and Denamark/Pennilla! Fun times!
Next morning was still cloudy and a bit wet but we still got our bikinis on and went to Eli creek, visited the Maheno shipwreck a ship built in Scotland that became a cruise liner between Sydney and Auckland and then became a hospital ship during WW2 but sunk on its way across the ocean after being purchased by Japanese. Later on we visited Champagne Pools (we wish) which is a rock pool just on the beach and when the waves crash over the pool it becomes bubbly with a frothy top! So cool! We also visited Indian Peak, the highest point on the island. We had a busy day actually!
Some party poopers in the group (which happened to be the same party poopers on the Mandrake) were not happy about the weather situation and wanted to go to a resort for the night! However the majority vote (including us) choose to stick it out and so everyone had to camp again, even if it was for our own amusement ha ha haaaa!!
The atmosphere finally lifted thanks to Hannah playing DJ all night and connecting the kindle to the truck speakers, not that everyone was happy with this! It was a battle of who wanted the music the loudest and we won!! Mainly thanks to Ginge and Kate taking it in turns to turn the volume back up after the Germans kept turning it down! So funny!! Also I think Ginge had another motive after being taken out by one German in particular in a previous game of football! Lmao! She has he bruise to prove it!
The sun was shining on our last day in Fraser Island and we drove through the beach and across the island to the opposite side to Lake Mackenzie before getting back on the ferry and heading back to Hervey Bay!
No rest for the wicked as we packed up our bags again and head to Brisbane on the Greyhound night bus.
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