FRASER ISLAND!
This place was great. We joined a group of 7 for a total of 10 people to fit into one toyota land cruiser. We loaded the roof with camping supplies and food and set off. We took a barge from Rainbow beach and in 10 minutes we were driving on the sandy beaches of Fraser. We saw a couple beautiful lakes, one was really big and turned out to be shallow even 100 feet out, the color was amber from tea tree oil. The next one was aqua blue with white sand that looked and felt almost like flour. That lake got deep really fast. Marc was standing maybe 5 feet from me and he had a head and shoulders out of the water with feet on the bottom and I had to swim about twenty feet to find it where I was just the 5 feet away. Then we saw Indian head which was some impressive cliffs where we could see turtles and such below us. Then the famous Lake Mackenzie which was a bigger version of the aqua blue one I described earlier. I got to drive the 4x4, only problem was that it was standard and I had only driven stick once before. I figured I'd rely on my motorcycle clutch skills(it's a standard too). Haha, I got some funny looks when I mentioned that, but they let me have a go. They said it was scary at first but I got the hang of it. I had fun the whole time, haha. The first night I shared a tent with Ethan, but it was a 5 foot Kmart one so apparently I was kicking him all night. So the second night I decided to sleep outside on the dunes. There are dingoes all over the island and they have plenty of warning signs about them but they only attack people they can smell the fear on. After a night of a southern hemisphere starry sky I saw dingo tracks all around my sleeping bag, haha. I had all my face parts and fingers, so no worries! The next day we did Lake Wabby which has really steep sand dunes that go straight into it. We brought a bodyboard so we could slide down into the water. That was tons of fun. You go pretty fast and if you dont fall off you skim over the water. We added a jump to up the ante. So after that we drove around a bit and headed home.