Fraser Island 8.11-15.11

Saturday, November 10, 2012

Enjoying a cup of tea outside our nice 4wd home with Nico D (a Norwegian reggae artist) lound in the background (if loud music can be in the background…?). We arrived Fraser Island on Thursday. We stayed the first two nights at a campground in the center of the island, in the middle of the rainforest, called Central Station. That’s a campground with facilities such as toilets and showers, but still very simple. Yesterday we went to Lake McKenzie, a lake with fine white sand and clear water. It was cloudy most of the day, but I guess that was a good think cuz it was warm enough as it was. We stayed at the lake the whole day, enjoying the environment and the life we live. We also saw our first dingo. It came down to the beach, and walked along the beach (there were people everywhere, put it didn’t seem to bother at all).

Today we drove out of the rainforest and out on the beach again, and on our way we met a few dingoes as well. Along the beach there are a few places where you can buy fuel and some food, so we stopped on the first one we got to, just as we drove out of the rainforest, and bought ourselves a ice-cream. There was some kind of retreat or something there so we were surprised to find paved roads. On the rest of the island there are just sand-roads, so a 20km drive will take up to two hours! It’s fun to drive on the roads in the rainforest, but we got very tiered, so it was a great relief to get back out on the beach where we can drive a lot fasterJ

We found a camping site on the beach at 10 o’clock so we’ve got the whole day here to relax and enjoy life. It’s quite windy and cloudy today as well, but I guess that’s better than getting completely fried in the sun (but I do hope it gets a bit better till we’re going to cook, cuz cooking on a gas-stove in the wind is not easy, and not very economical).

But now we’re just going to enjoy our freedom! JT is playing with his frisbees J

Tomorrow we’ll be driving a bit further north to a campground near the beach, called Dundubara (it’s good to be able to go to the bathroom once in a while), and after one night there we’ll continue up to Waddy Point before enjoying the last night here on the beach again.

It was my sister’s birthday yesterday, so because we didn’t have any way of congratulating her then, I do it now (this won’t be posted in a few days, but I heard that “it’s better late than never” so…): Happy birthday, Linn! We love youJ Hope you had a wonderful day.

Lotte

 

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

On Sunday JT woke up in the middle of the night because his side of the bed was soaking wet! It was raining like crazy and the windows were open. In the morning it was still cloudy and grey so we packed up our camp as fast as we could (everything was wet) and went off to our next camp, Dundubara Campground. Because of the weather there was not much to do, so we managed to change some coins so we were able to take our first shower since we got to Fraser Island. That was amazing! The rest of the day we spent relaxing “at home” (which is our car), playing cards and doing nothing; a real Sunday.

On Monday we were so eager to get to our next camp that we went off a bit early, getting out on the beach when the tide was still pretty high. We decided to stop and wait for a while, but the skies were blue and the sun was shining so we were just happy to be out on the beach in the sunshine. We managed to get to Waddy Point where we’re now staying and will be staying until tomorrow. This is the place we like the most of all the places we’ve been on this island. The beach is nearby, and on the beach there are big ponds of seawater that are deep enough to swim in, but there are no sharks J On the beaches here on Fraser Island they don’t recommend people to swim because, like they told me, “it’s very sharky on Fraser”, so I guess my mother will be pleased to hear that we did not swim in the ocean.

I just got out of bed this beautiful Tuesday morning, and JT is still sleeping. Later today we’ll take a walk on the beach to a place called Orchid Beach where they have a little shop, a bar and fuel (it’s too small to be called a station, but they have two pumps where you can fill up your tank with expensive fuel, but still not as expensive as in Norway). We went there yesterday, before we got here to have a coffee, but they were waiting for supplies, so today we’re hoping that they’ll have coffee for us, and an ice-cream J

Tomorrow we’ll be heading south again for beach camping the last night here, and maybe we’ll stop at a lake somewhere on the way to take a swim.

Lotte

I have made a film with some pictures from the trip to Fraser Island, but our Internett access is not good enough to upload it so it'll have to wait.