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    • AUS->NZ
      Day 17

      Happy Days - Day 2

      August 19, 2023 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C

      One of Scott’s mottos is “Happy Days”. He repeats this a lot over the radio, along with “good vibes” and “bloody beautiful”. It’s called a tag-along-tour, as he helps us get from place to place, tells us what we’re cooking, then buggers off for the most part.

      Back on the road early (well, beach, I guess). Inland on the island looks less beachy, with a lot of fauna and vegetation but you can still see the sand cover. The guide, Scott, explained the forestry history of the island. The trees are several hundreds of years old and the forestry industry was massive until the government shut it down to preserve the island. This wood supposedly built the Suez Canal. Now the main industries are tourism and fishing - lots of prawn fishing boats just off the coast.

      K’gari is known for its huge population of dingos. Apparently these are purebred dingos, which are unique as most of the others on Australia are cross-bred with the English settler’s dogs. We saw a handful. They’re highly aggressive and like to test out their territory often, and we’re supposed to respond with aggression if attacked. I have a suspicion Amy goes out wrestling them at night to assert her alpha dominance.

      Eli Creek - enjoyed the lazy river running from the springs into the ocean and bit of beach volleyball.

      North coast - saw several humpbacks and minkie whales migrating, which are apparently very playful this time of year jumping out of the water consistently.

      Champagne pools - first saltwater swim on the island. The oceans crash into the rocks and fill up the shallow dips. Water foams up a bit thus the bubbles / ‘champagne’. Saw two manta rays swimming around the pools.

      Stargazing at night from the beach was unbelievable and almost emotional. More stars than I’ve ever seen at one time.      Read more

    • Australia
      Day 10

      Indian Head and Champagne pools

      October 9, 2018 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C

      Day 2 on Fraser Island, and we slept surprisingly well considering we were in a tent on the beach with the waves crashing behind us, but we did pay a little bit extra for a bed rather than a camping mat. This was a good decision!

      Thankfully one of the guides had managed to find me a spare right foot flip flop after my one had broken immediately on our arrival and I was left with no other footwear!

      After breakfast, we jumped back in the 4x4s again and went to a lake which used to be massive that had almost been fully covered by a sand drift, and were taught how to throw a boomerang the Aussie way. During our drives the guide would radio in to tell us to look out to sea to see whales breaching, or to give us the shout that a Dingo was up ahead.

      We stopped at a place called Champagne Pools which is an area on the north coast of the island known for its pools of bubbling water caused by waves crashing over volcanic rock. No bubbles today though but crystal clear water to swim in and some lovely little fish swimming about with us. Finally, before heading back to camp, we climbed up a near cliff face to get to Indian Head, a great lookout over Fraser Island.

      After dinner we shared our Goon with some of the guys and went to bed with a huge thunderstorm lashing over our tents. Thankfully they were fully waterproof.

      Last day tomorrow before heading back to Noosa in the eve! X      Read more

    • Weltreise 2019 bis 2021
      Day 226

      Buckelwale an den Indian Heads

      August 24, 2019 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C

      Am nächsten Morgen standen wir wieder mit den Gezeiten früh auf, um am Strand entlang zu den "Indian Heads" zu fahren. Das sind wunderschöne Sandsteinformationen, auf denen man wandern kann.

      Von dort oben trauten wir unseren Augen kaum: wir sahen unglaublich viele Wale vor der Insel! Manche sprangen haushoch aus dem Wasser und landeten wieder um eine riesige Wasserfontäne zu hinterlassen. Leider lässt es sich nur schwer mit unserer kleinen Reisekamera festhalten.Read more

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    • Katharina SchumacherAustralien 2016-17
      Day 81

      Fraser Island (day 10)

      October 5, 2016 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C

      When you have to leave the house at 6am it should better be worth it.
      I can give you a little preview it definitely was. 💕
      We left the house at 6am and made our way to the Brisbane Transit Centre where we got picked up at 7am to go on a two day Fraser Island tour.
      Our "bus" was a bit funny looking but we got to understand why later that day. But first we had to get to Fraser Island.
      From Brisbane it took us about 4h until we reached Rainbow Beach where we made a short break at the beach.
      We then actually drove on the beach with our bus to get to the ferry which was waiting for us at the shore. Probably 10 minutes later our bus left the ferry again and we were on Fraser.
      It now became quite clear why our bus wasn't a normal bus. There are no roads on Fraser Island you either drive on the beach or in the rainforest.
      It can be a hell of a bumpy ride especially through the rainforest and you will definitely be glad for your seatbelt since it feels a lot like a roller coaster ride.
      Good thing nobody got sick and we actually had a lot of fun driving around. Our tour guide and driver told us some facts about Fraser and he had a really good taste in music, too so it definitely was never boring (and thanks for the photos Rhett). 💕
      Fraser Island is the largest sand island in the world and the aboriginal people call this island K'gari which means paradise 💕. I can definitely see their point this island is just pure perfection💕.
      Fraser is surrounded by the ocean (salty water) but there is fresh water constantly coming from under the island up to the surface.
      This means that there are various streams, creeks and seas on the island. All of them filled with crystal clear fresh water because the water is filtered through all the layers of sand before it reaches the surface of Fraser.
      Our first stop was at Eli Creek which is one of those crystal clear creeks. We went for a swim before driving to the Maheno ship wreck.
      The ship was once 120m long but it keeps sinking into the sand so you can only see the top of it today.
      Our last stop of the day was Indian Head which is basically a cliff from which you can get the best view of the whole island. 💕
      But it was not only the whole island we got to see from up there, we also spotted humpback whales, dolphins, eagle rays, a turtle and some really big tuna.
      It was such an amazing experience there are basically no words to describe it and even though the photos are beautiful they are nothing compared to what it looks in real life.
      On our way to the resort we were staying that night we also saw on of the many dingoes who live on Fraser Island.
      After we had dinner in our resort Rhett (our tour guide) took us to the beach to show us the stars and a special surprise in the sand. I have never seen so many stars at once. We could even see the Milky Way and two other galaxies 💕.
      The surprise in the sand was equally beautiful. Every time you walked over the sand right at the shore the sand would light up in a green-blueish light. The phenomenon is called bioluminescents and is coursed by tiny bacteria living in the sand. It was just stunning 💕.      Read more

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