Thursday 30th August 2007

At about 7am this morning we were woken to the sound of Patty shouting in German. Me and Nikki stayed in our tent, but when the others went to investigate we heard that our camp had been invaded by a couple of dingoes - who were raiding our food supplies (even though they were packed away in huge cool boxes (or eskies)) and even made off with some crisps and a pack of bread rolls! Patty managed to eventually scare them off by throwing her flip-flops at them.

After everyone had gotten over the shock of being rudely awaken by the screaming German, we packed up the 4x4 and set off. Just as we were pulling onto the beach, we noticed that the a Ranger had pulled in to speak to the guys who had started last nights fire... boy were they gonna be in trouble. You're only allowed fires in controlled areas - theirs was not, and you're not allowed to sleep on the dunes next the beach (only behind them) - they were... ooopps!

Because it was our last day on Fraser Island we wanted to try and get everything on the itinerary done, so we drove to our first stop, which was Lake Wabby and had our breakfast in the carpark. We didn't want to send ANY food back, so some people had cereal, some had sausage sarnies and some had scrambled egg. We shouldn't have had any eggs left but we discovered that, when we'd used the Aussie's bbq yesterday and it came to packing up, Nikki had 'accidently' stolen their plate of eggs. D'oh! We hope they had more!

The walk from the car, through the forest, to Lake Wabby took about half-an-hour but was well worth it - the lake was STUNNING! Three sides of it were a lush green colour with trees and bushes and the forth was a huge sand dune that we had to walk across to get the water. The lake itself was a deep green colour, but the edge were clear and you could see fishes swimming about. It wasn't long before most of us had dived in to cool off. Not long after we'd arrived, another group turned up with a body-board and after a while they invited us to slide down the dune and into the water at the bottom... brilliant!

After a couple of hours laying in the sun or swimming in the lake it was time to leave. Our barge back to the mainland left at 2.15pm - but we weren't sure how long it would take us to get back so we set off at just after 1pm. We made it in plenty of time and sat in the car-park eating whatever food was left.

Back on the mainland, we met Shane from the 4 Wheel Drive company and followed him back to the workshop where we cleared out the van and washed the dishes. Afterwards we went back to Kookaburras and then me and Nikki made our way back to Beaches.

We were supposed to meet up with the guys from our group for some food tonight, but after getting ready no-one could be bothered to go out (plus it was further for me and Nikki to walk - and they only wanted MacDonalds anyway), so we had some pasta and hung around our hostel before coming to bed at about 10.30pm... we were exhausted!

Fraser Island was AWESOME - we're definitely buying a tent when we get home!