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!