Alright, today I head off. It is getting too cold here ;))
No, I have the opportunity to hop on a Sail Vessel and cruise around in the
pacific ocean. Actually to hop on the boat my friend Luke brings over the pacific
to Brisbane: I fly to Papeete on Tahiti! Still cannot believe that I am really doing
this. Wish me luck!

After 8 months in the far north I am finally back in a big city, back in civilization.
Just 4 and a half days, but still, I was quite enjoying it.
I mainly visited Art Gallerys and shopped :))

We left Rainbow Beach in the afternoon the day we came back from Fraser, heading further down the backpackerroad to Noosa.

It is actually quite a nice holiday village, so far the first I would compare to Port Douglas. There are nice upper class resorts, lots of nice shops, restaurants and bars.
We stayed at Dolphins - a really laid back Backpaker near the beach, I can recommed it.

There is a lot to do in Noosa. We went to the sunshine beach the arriving evening and had a beautiful sunset. The next day we explored the little National Park, went along the coastline and to other beaches. The last times we always were pretty lucky, saw a platypus where they are supposed to be seen, saw dingos on Fraser - this time no koala :((

The third day we, Karine, Katja, Pierre and me, hired a car and drove to the National Park (Great Sandy). Again sand sand sand and a phanomenal view from Double Point!!

Finnally I did the trips of trips, the mustabsolutelydo as a backpacker: Fraser Island.

So they equipped us in Rainbow Beach with a Toyota Landcruiser 4x4, Campinggear and put us to bunches of 11. I had a quite mixed group: 3 English, 2 Swedish girls, 1 french Canadian girl Karine (my workmate from Airlie!), 2 Denish boys, a swiss boy and us two germs girls.


We crossed over to the island, drove to the beach and there it was ... sand sand sand, blue waves breaking in the sun. It is beautiful I have to admit.

First we went to lake McKanzie, then the shipwreck - where we saw the first dingos, arrived and camped at the beach ... just shortly before sunset.

The second day we drove to the Indian Rock and walked to the Champagne Pools ... had a rather relaxed as we all were pretty hungover from the party the night before ;))
On the second morning we went to Lake Wabby (it is really a long walk for a morning). It is green lake, but still quite nice. The sanddunes on the one side are cool for running or sliding down.

Afterwards we head back to the barge. Often we had to stop and help the other groups to get out of the sand or assist to 'repair' the car. So we were the only group making it back in time - and the original car!