Rainbow Beach and Fraser Island...

Rainbow Beach, quite a small place but I loved it. The beach was great and I spent most of my time there where I had some lessons in trying to swim in the surf. After a while I got the hang of it, or thought I did then I would get smacked in the face by a wave again getting dragged back to the shore with a mouth full of salt water. I only spent 3 nights here, somewhere to stay while I went off to visit Fraser Island. This was part of my trip I was really unsure about. Everyone had been telling me that the place is full of spiders, big, hairy spiders! Thankfully I have not yet seen a huntsman (touch wood) and Fraser Island was no exception. I saw quite a few big spiders but they were in webs in trees where I don't mind them, it is when they get into your bedroom or bathroom when I start to really freak out. After watching a really boring and kind of scary safety video about Fraser Island we set off. We had a convoy of 4 4x4 cars which I had my turn at driving. Luckily ours was an automatic so as we were bouncing about and trying to keep control of the wheel we didn't have to think about changing gears too. Driving on sand is hard, once you get stuck in the tracks of another vehicle it is very hard to get out. Our first stop on the island was Lake Mackenzie. I was in complete awe of this place, a beautiful fresh water lake high up in the hills, it is hard to believe it is not man made. We then headed to our campsite to pitch our tents before it got dark and discovered there was no toilet...uh oh! We were told that if we needed to go we would have to go in pairs with a flash light and squat around the corner away from the site. The reason we had to go in pairs, there ware dingos! The dingos were lingering around the campsite all night waiting for scraps of food, they were pretty harmless though and seemed to get scared away from simply shining your torch at them, this didn't stop them from stealing and eating someones flip flops in the night however. The next day, back in our cars we set off to a creek for a morning dip then off to a place called the Champagne Pools, so named because they are pools next to the sea and when a wave hit the rocks the water froths up just like champagne. This place was also beautiful but got kind of ruined by the rain, and it has rained pretty much everyday since! Our last night in the campsite was fun but I think everyone was ready to go back, sick of squatting, sleeping on the very uncomfortable ground and so sick of getting eaten alive by the marsh flies! And so back to Rainbow Beach where we all raced for a shower and spent our last night together with some good old goon!