This past week was Anzac Day, which is similar to Veterans Day in the US. Because it was a national holiday classes were canceled and I ended up having no class Wednesday-Friday. I spent the holiday week/weekend up in Hervey Bay and on Fraser Island. It was an awesome trip! Hervey Bay is about a 4 hour bus ride from Brisbane and then Fraser Island is a 35 minute ferry ride from the bay.
I went up there with my friend Patrick and we spent 3 days camping on the island with 14 other people from our hostel, which arranged the trip. There were 5 Norwegians, 2 Irish couples, 1 English guy, 1 Israeli girl, 3 German girls and us. It was a great group! We all got along really well and thoroughly enjoyed our time together. It was so interesting to learn about all the different cultures and get to know people from around the world. Everyone has such a different and unique story and it was so fun to hear them all!
Fraser Island is the world's largest sand island. We set out for the island Thursday morning in 2 large 4x4 vehicles with all our supplies strapped on top. We spent the next three days off-roading in the rainforest and driving on 75 mile beach, right next to the crashing, shark infested waves. It was seriously unreal!
We camping behind sand dunes, swam in the clearest blue lake, ran down sand dunes into another lake, cooked on the beach at sunset, woke up early for sunrise, fought off the wild dingos and just enjoyed the being away from reality. So much beauty! The pictures should speak for themselves! The weather was perfect the entire time. I even learned how to drive a manual 4X4 truck on the opposite side of the car and road while on the beach! Pretty sweet!
(Blue lake is Lake McKenzie, green lake is Lake Wobby, the shipwreck is from 1905, cove area at the beach is the Champagne Pools)
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