As the crow flies

Fraser Island

This was a while ago now that we went to Fraser Island - the world's largest island made entirely of sand. It has vegetation on it, but underneath it is all sand. We did a self-drive 4x4 safari thing which means you are grouped together with 9 other people who signed up for the same thing and all fit into an old model, but new (1999) diesel Toyota Landcruiser. We went camping over there on the island so all our gear went up on the roof rack since inside was full of people. Our landcruiser was parti ularly full due to the copious amounts of alcohol these 5 scottish people brought. When I say copious I mean 120 cans of beer and 20 litres of wine for 2 and a half days. THey didn't end up drinking all of it, but they did drink most of it.

The island itself was interesting, the long expanse of beach (75 continuous miles) which you could not swim in the ocean due to a colony of tiger sharks, some fireweed which apparently gives you 3rd degree burns and hazardous currents. Some of the lakes on the island were crystal clear with pure white sand. It was quite a picturesque place.

But one of my favourite things had to be driving the right-hand drive landcruiser on the beach, through creeks, and up sandy hills. I've always wanted to drive a landcruiser off road and now I've done it.

posted by Aaron @ 9:35 PM