Lake Wabby and the Lone Swimmer

We need to hit the beach at 7.00am low tide so we packed up the tent whilst watching the sun rise and prepared for another day of adventure.

Our first destination for day two was to visit Lake Wabby. It’s about a 30 minute hike inland from the beach although we missed the beach sign and passed it by as we focussed on a plane landing in front of us. So we asked the pilot for directions and he said, “yeah mate, a couple of minutes back up the coast”.

After finding the Lake Wabby sign, we hit the track as we had a limited low tide time to work to.

After 1.3 km of inland hiking on sinking sand, I realised I had left the 12v fridge hooked up keeping the beer cool so I had to run back the 1.3km, unhook, and start the hike again. Jen wisely continued to Lake Wabby and I eventually caught up.

Lake Wabby is a small freshwater, emerald colored lake surrounded by bush on one side and high sand dunes on the other. The lake is directly adjacent to the Hammerstone Sandblow, which is slowly moving into the lake. Eventually the lake will disappear under the sand.

But for now, we have it all to ourselves. I set up the drone for a fly over and climbed a sand dune and unbeknown to me, Jen had gone for a swim in the lake. She was the “Lone Swimmer” practicing her stroke technique. With the sunlight glaring out my camera screen, I pressed record and manouvered the drone towards the lake.

The drone footage of Lake Wabby and the Lone Swimmer is awesome so check it out.

We hiked back to the beach and headed to Eurong before high tide and refreshed as we were a bit dehydrated even though we had plenty of water.

From here, we took a return track to Lake Mckenzie stopping at Central Station on the way to view Wanggoolba Creek. Central Station was a substantial logging village in the early 1900s, even with two schools but was cleared after 1930 and rejuvenated with many tall trees.

Wanggoolba Creek is a fresh water creek on Fraser Island with its crystal clear waters flowing over white sand through a rainforest valley.

From here we returned to Kingfisher Bay to catch the 5.00pm ferry back to the mainland. Sad to be leaving “Bill”, our trusted 4WD but in the end, we survived the adventure and now Jen loves 4 wheel driving. FIVE STARS.Les mer