I got picked up at 11am from a very funny busdriver. He is approximately 28 years old and had this huge beard and long hair. He was wearing a funny hat and an orange shirt. We chucked my bag in the back of the car and he offered me the seat next to him at the front of the car. I turned around, said hi to my travel mates and for my surprise I could see only Asians. Which is good when I think about it now! No Germans... Finally.
There was one woman from the States, she lives close to Philadelphia to be precisely. Her name is Margot by the way. She told me that she's 55 years old and travelling by herslef. A very nice lady, we get along with eachother very well. In my opinion she seems to be very intelligent and I like her company. We suddenly talked to eachother. So we had lunch still in Rainbow Beach but than we took off for Fraser Island. Me still sitting at the front I had probably one of the best views. We took the ferry at the beach. That was sooo random! There was this huge boat/ferry who was just waiting for us right at the beach... No harbour, nothing. The big bus (which is a four wheel drive) drove on the sand to the ferry. It took us 10 minutes to get to the Island. When the ferry stopped it let us out just at another beach again, this time we had to drive a bit through the water though. Because the tight was so high we couldn't drive on the beach straight away, first we had to manage the worst street in the world for about 20 Minutes.
After this he just turned right and there we were: The seven mile beach. That was a good drive, very smooth. We drove again for about 20 minutes and I learned that Fraser Island is made of 98% just sand! There is rainforest growing ond JUST sand! How amazing is that? And you are not allowed to take anything you find on the island with you. Not even a tiny stone... Margot wanted to take a feather with her but she wasn't allowed.
There are only a few people living on the island and our tourguide Ban (that's how I call him, I reckon his name was Beaux or something I don't remember) lived there for four years!!! Too isolated for me, no way.
On our way we saw a lot of dead jellyfish, but huge ones. We turned left after a while and there was this gate that keeps the dingos away from the little town. We also got told that we should be aware of the dingos. I'm not scared but some people really are. I reckon you should just leave them alone and than they won't hurt you.
They're just wild dogs.
When we passed these few houses the street got even worse in my opinion but apparently the street before is supposed to be the worst street in the world... Did I mention that there are no proper streets and you just drive on sand? The car was shaking in its worst manners for about another 40 minutes... We stopped in front of a huge tree. It was just massive. I hope I can show you a few pics later.
We drove a bit further and the shaking went on... The tour guide Ban dropped us off and told us to walk in that direction and he pickes us up at the end of it. That was nice, I started talking to a Korean couple, they've been travelling/working through Australia for 5 months already. I can't remember their names as they were so complicated. They seem to be very nice, though. So funny, before we started walking he told us to be aware of the snakes, to keep them away we should walk like elephants. Then he told us to be cautious of the stingy moskitos, just keep your hand waving in front of your face he said. Than to not get killed by an Koala-possum-bear we should hold a stick on top of our head. Obviously he was making fun but the Asians somehow didn't get it and started walking like elephants, with one hand waving and in the other hand a stick. I was laughing so hard I couldn't believe it. So cute.
After walking through the bush for half an hour we finally saw our tourguide waiting for us. The walk was just amazing. The rainforest is beautiful with all the huge trees and these smaller palmtrees in between, the creeks and more.
After our adventure through the rainforest Ban took us to a lake. We went for a swim and there I talked to Margot a bit more and get to know Edan and Emma from Taiwan. They're all sooooo nice. They totally changed my opinion about Asians and their English wasn't too bad either. Because beforehand I only met Asians with kind of a really bad English. Language helps a lot!
The track back wasn't very satisfying as it was still awfully bumpy. Imagine if you go by the pace of 10 km/h and it just shakes everything out of you for about 40 minutes. After that my head really ached, and my neck as well. My poor little fragile and vulnerable neck.
Margot sat next to me on our way back and she talked a lot to our tourguide Ban and I learned that some of the big sandhills on the tracks are cars who got stuck on their way and they just diged them under the sand. I first thought he was joking but apparently he was being serious. Unbelievable.
Anyway I'm glad we made it without any back-breakes.
We had dinner at the resort there.
Ah by the way I'm sharing the room with Margot, Edan (19) and Emma (32). They're all very lovely. Dinner was alright. After that we went to a bar to have a drink, on our way we met some other guys and we decided to go to the beach first. A girl from the UK and another 55 y/o from Switzerland, Zurich.
Super afraid of the dingos we walked very close to eachother with lights to the beach. As soon as we arrived Margot said 'Alright lets turn the lights off and enjoy the sky'.
The sky full of stars was just amazing. We could see the milkyway. Back at the bar we had one drink and went straight to bed as we were tired and have to get up early tomorrow morning (at 6am). I'm in bed now and all excited of what happens tomorrow.
I forgot to mention that we have no phone service here on the island. Which is kind of good.
