Had a great day out at Fraser Island today - an amazing place. It's around 160 miles long and is uniquely made up of sand - you can only go on the island in an 4x4
It has huge fresh water lakes - and the sand is so fine it's used in jewellers rouge
We drove on the beach - it's an official Queensland highway - with speed limits and police patrol.
Then we took a plane ride over the island - the beach is a runway too!
It's called 75 mile beach for a reason
And it's got a ship wreck!
Another birdy story - These are Mutton birds - 100's of them dead on the beach - they start their journey in New Zealand and fly up the Chinese and Russian Coast to the Bering Sea then they fly down the west coast of the US and when they get to about Mexico they head for Australia - they rarely land on terra firma and have the ability to bob like corks in the sea and eat fish and squid. The older ones peg it at this point hence all the dead birds that are washed up on the shore.
A really fantastic place and a nice group of French, Dutch, German, and Ozzies to share it with on the bus.
With all the sand and 4x4 testosterone flying around I am ashamed to admit I got the big rig stuck in the sand at our camp site yesterday. We fired up the camper for an early departure and for the next few minutes we were watched by the other breakfasting campers while we tried power it out of the camp spot - all to no avail - the wheels were spinning, the clutch burning, and the diesel fumes pumping but we were going nowhere - it's nice to have an audience when you are looking like a Pommie wimp isn't it? Finally some Aussies wandered over and gave us a little push and we were out. Well in my defence it must have been at least 6 inches of sand, 2.5 ton of camper and only 2 WD - and we got hammered in the cricket as well - the Aussies must have loved it.
We are moving on towards Brisbane tomorrow - maybe staying around Noosa Heads for a couple of days before we fly to Sydney and start to make our way home
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