Fraser Island – Day 1

I kept praying after the rain last night, hoping the sun will come out today, afterall, it is not uncommon to have shower in the morning and shinning sun in the afternoon. However, God must be away from holiday as he must have missed my prayer.

Boarded the bus with 2x other young people, as stated in the brochure, this tour is recommended for people aged between 18 – 35, people outside this range is suggested to join day trip.

Fraser Island is the largest sand island in the world, so once you set foot on Fraser, you are actually walking on the sand. At first it was really hard to imagine how sand can form an island, and with so many vegetations growing. I cannot find dessert have so many green trees.

It was explained that this island holds enormous amount of sand and clear water. The water saturated sand was compacted to form this big island. As for the trees, they were able to dissolve particular yellow sand and extract the nutrients from the sand. As explained by the guide, you can find totally different habitat in this island within a very short distance, and that is truly amazing.

Berry tastes like toothpaste & cinnamon

First we have to walk 15 minutes in the forest to go to Basin Lake. On the way, the guide asked us to pick some little berries from the bush, and try to taste them. They were small white berries with purple spots, and tasted like mixture of toothpaste and cinnamon.

Basin Lake is a small oval lake surrounded by trees. One minute you were walking in the bushes and the next minute the small lane lead you into a lake, it was like entering Narnia as you walked into the closet.

Then we had to walk 40 minutes in the forest to another point, while we bushwalked, the guide would drive the car to the destination to lay out the lunch. This was when I started to like this tour. It was designed for you to experience the island, and not just put you into the car and drive through the place.

The next lake is the infamous Lake McKenzie, as seen from the photos and brochures, this was the most beautiful lake on the island. But with dark clouds lingering above and rain falling, the beauty of the lake had been discounted. Still, everyone rushed into the crystal clear water to have some exfoliations with the smooth white sand.

Soaked up in rain and a bit disappointed, we waited to be sorted into our room. The room came with the tour was a dorm room (probably 4-beded) up in the hill. The guide solemnly advised that the dorm rooms were over booked, so some of us had been upgraded to the resort hotel room down the hill. So everyone’s fingers were crossed hoping that he would not call your name when distributing the dorm room keys.

It turned out that I was one of the lucky bastards (I was quite convinced those staying up in the dorm would call us this name). The hotel room was not exceptionally impressive, but it was a hotel & double room & with TV & with bathroom & it cost $300 a night (almost the price of the tour) & I was going to sleep for 2 nights. ^_<