Okie doke...took a bus to Hervey Bay where our hostel was. We stayed the night there, had a free bbq, played some pool vball and got our drink on. I've got plenty of drinking games to bring home and most were played just in this one night. One of them involves using an empty goon box. Goon is what Aussies call bagged/boxed wine. Anyways, so you put the box on the ground and then you use your mouth to pick up the box...wherever you picked it up at with your mom you have to tear it off...you continually do this, passing it from one person to the next and as the box gets smaller you have to seriously stretch yourself down to the ground...the trickiest part of this game is that you can't use you arms, hands or shoulders in any way when balancing and bending down to pick it up...it gets ridic, but its way fun! So yeah, that was that night...didn't go to bed til like 2 or 3 am or so, dont really remember, and had to wake up at effing 6am...no good. We had to get up early because there was a meeting about Fraser Island and then we had to go pick up our 4wd and camping gear and then go food shopping for the next three days.
We got all of that done, hungover I might add, and we hopped on the ferry that would take us to Fraser. Alright, so Fraser is SO awesome! I'm obsessed with camping so it really couldn't get much better than this. They warned us not to go swimming in the ocean because there are a bajillion tiger sharks, jellyfish, sting rays, and a ridiculous rip tide (those are just some of the ways you could die). Anyways, we get a map and start off on our way through these ridiculous and muddy trails in the middle of a forest...It was crazyness! I wish I knew how to drive stick because it would have been great to try, oh well, my buddies David and Jason did an awesome job at it! So we find out that our group of 10, which consisted of me, stac, kels, david, pat, jason, alex, and then three random people: 2 brothers from Germany and a girl from the UK....well, we find out that for some reason our packet didnt have an itinerary in it like it was supposed to (so we had to follow the other groups so we knew which campsites to go to and shit). Well when we stop off at a random place with everyone, my group decides to go exploring...well our exploration turned into like a 3 mile hike that led us to this random lake in the middle of the forest...it was gorgeous! Anyways, so we headed back to the car, but because some people kept lollygagging the other groups didnt wait for us...so we had to just try to guess which way our campsite could possibly be...took out the Fraser Island map and just started driving. We get on the beach where all the campsites are and drove up and down, back and forth on the damn thing probably 4 times over the course of like 2 hours (which means we were driving during high tide, which you're not supposed to do) and it was dark as shit out by the time we found everyone and the campsite...had to set up our tents in the pitch black with no lights anywhere (both nights we camped actually...I guess we weren't very good at time management) OH and it was pouring rain the entire time! It kept raining throughout the night, but I didnt give a shit...me and some of the boys just hungout on the deserted beach...best feeling ever not having civilization anywhere near you...oh and we decided to play in the water cause we were getting wet anyways...good times...no worries though, didnt go deep enough to get pulled out by the rip or eaten by Tiger sharks.
So yeah, everyone was pretty much wasted and acting insane the entire night, for some reason I wasn't in the mood...neither were kels, stac, or david...so we just chilled in rain and watched everyone. Anyways, finally went to bed and the damn waterproof tents were not fucking waterproof enough...fell asleep in a pool of water at our feet, oh and the mats/sleeping bags they gave us were complete shit...felt like concrete and they werent long enough to cover my feet and shoulders at the same time...awesome since i was freezing from the rain and wind. So yeah, the tents were also small and smelly as shit...smelled worse than wet dog (but that didnt even bother us by the end because we all ended up smelling way worse than the tents) and me, stac and kels shared a tent...stac and i basically spooned the entire time haha it was hilarious...OH, and there were tiny sand crabs crawling through our hair the whole night, but i didnt give a shit cause i was so damn tired.
Woke up the next morning to discover that even more water had come into the tent while we were sleeping and got all over my bags which held all of my clothes and my electronics, SWEEEEEET! But not really. So I freaked out about that cause I thought for sure my ipod, camera, phone and passport were ruined forever. Got over it though because i had the whole day ahead of me...we went down the beach a few miles: saw an awesome shipwreck that had been there like a hundred yrs or something, a random dead and HUGE parrot fish washed up on the beach, the champagne pools (which are these big pools that are on the side of a rockface that faces the ocean and the waves crash over them leaving pools of bubbles...that look like champagne...and small fishies everywhere, we swam there for a little while, then we drove over to this lookout point...well this cliff was massive and we hiked up it and saw the most beautiful views! There were these little signs that tell you how far you can go, but we totally ignored it and went all the way to the tip of the cliff...trippy feeling looking down, but amazing! And btw, during all of this we decided to not stay with the other groups...I liked it a lot better that way, it would have been way more hectic and annoying being with like 30 more people. Anyways, so we were off on our own again to find a campsite. We found where everyone else was, but it was a small ass campsite so we went to one right down the beach and posted up by a random group of UK, German, and Canadian people. This night became my second favorite night of my life...it was first, but then the whitsundays happened, but thats another blog. Anyways, it was finally a clear night, no rain. We all just chilled by the beach looked up at the stars (I saw my first shooting star that night!!!!), the moon was crazy bright and at one point the glare coming off of it was a cross...I know, sounds ridiculous and maybe some of you wont care, but I was seriously blown away...I dont care how cheesy it is...we TRIED taking a million pictures of it, but our cams suck and it just didnt do it justice. Another thing that made the night even better was that we finally saw dingos (another thing that can kill you)!! Me and Kels had been waiting to see them since we've been in Australia! Well, they literally came strolling through our campsite a couple of times, one was literally like 3 feet away from me...so cool! So yeah, didn't drink again that night, it was too perfect of a camping night and we had to wake up early again to pack the SUV up and get rolling.
So I woke up at around 6 am, for no reason, and I didn't feel like going back to sleep so I left the tent and headed out to the beach...I saw a rainbow right away and the sunrise...once again, so pretty. But then it started to sprinkle like an hour later so I went back to sleep for a bit...woke up again like an hour later, this time with stac, and walked the beach then got everybody up and moving to pack up and head off to Lake McKenzie. It ended up being the clearest, sunniest day of all of yayay! Lake McKenzie took my breath away...there are no words. The whitest sand ever. The clearest, bluest water ever. I could have laid there all day. While we were chilling there, we saw like 4 more dingos...they were out searching for some scraps from the tourists...theyre the cutest "mean" dogs ever...I want one now.
Finally headed back to the ferry and then the hostel where we all hauled ass to take showers (because there werent showers or toilets on Fraser the whole time, mmmmm) and get ready for the 13 hour night bus ride that lay ahead...taking us to Airlie Beach/Whitsunday Islands. Best camping trip I've ever had, hands down.
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