4th - 6th November. A weekend on Fraser Island.

Ever since Gaz and Huw visited Australia, they have raved about Fraser Island, so Elvie and I had to pay a visit. V was good enough to make the arrangements, and we duly set off at early o'clock in our hire Landrover to gat the barge to the Island. Less than 1 hour later we were driving down very rough sandy tracks exploring the south of the island.

These guys were stuck in the sand on the beach at Dilli Village. They soon got going after dropping the tyre pressure.



Fortunately we weren't camping. The fence is to keep dingos out.



Here we are swimming in lake Benaroon, after a picnic in the woods.



This was a magnificent walk at Central Station where the centre of the logging industry was based years ago.



This is where we were based for our stay. Eurong Holiday Village. Gosh it was hard. Swimming pool, surf beach, bar, and restaurant, but as I said, someone's got to do it, so it might as well be us.

Next day we drove up the beach, which is classed as a highway, with a speed limit, enforced by police with radar guns!! Great fun driving the 40 or so clicks up to Indian Head, where legend has it Captain Cook was observed by Aborigines sat on the headland gazing out to sea.






After the obligatory photographs we headed south and stopped off at the wreck of the Maheno.




Before heading inland off the beach to Lake Allom, where we saw the turtles, before heading back to the beach and Elli Creek.



Finally back to Eurong for a well earned rest by the pool.
This is sunrise at Eurong.

On Sunday we took a long scenic drive via 2 wonderful lakes.
This is lake Wabby. What you can't see is the lush tropical rainforest on the other side of the lake.


From here we went to Lake Mckenzie one of the most popular spots on the island.



We also saw a dingo in the car park.

It was a short drive from here to the landing stage where we caught the barge back to the mainland. A great weekend.