Part 8 - Fraser Island

The night after arriving the moon was full and the sky was clear so we took a stoll down to the beach to listen the the surf crash in. Beautiful night!


Early the next day drove out onto the beach for our first full day of adventures. The tire tracks were still visible from the previous day and you can see how much of the wide beach gets used.



We drove about 60 km up the beach to the Maheno shipwreck. You expect to hear about a tragedy until you find out the boat was retired from duty and was being towed by another boat when it broke free and washed up on the shore in 1935. Still fun to explore though.



We headed north from the Maheno and made it up to Indian Head where we ate lunch and climbed to the top for some nice views.


We drove back down the beach and stopped at Eli Creek so the kids could splash around and ride down probably the cleanest water we've seen in nature.



Later that day we walked to Wabby Lake where the lake is being slowly engulfed by a sand dune at a rate of 1 m per year. We ran into an island resident on the path to the lake. Heidi and Dave were scared and worried but the kids thought we were being silly. Dingos have been known to attack young children if they're not close to their parents. This guy had a tag on it's ear which indicates it's previously been a menace. We weren't taking any chances and scared it off the track. He just walked around us and kept on truckin' to the beach. Dave was lucky enough to see a couple of dingo pups the day before down by the beach so the rest of the family was quite excited to get their chance. Once we arrived at Lake Wabby we had a quick swim with the curious catfish before heading back to our resort.