Fraser Island - 1st Day...
Caught the ferry to Fraser Island. We had a bone crunching drive to Lake Mackenzie with our first driver, a 20-YO Israeli guy.
Lake Mackenzie is an awesome, crystal clear lake with a beach rated as one of the top ten in the world. It was fresh water, so you could exhale and drop to the sandy bottom and look at the underwater world around you while standing on the bottom. Very cool! We would also dive underwater and follow the sandy bottom towards the middle of the lake. We quickly found that the surface was a whole lot further away then we guessed, rising to the surface gasping for air!
After lunch we stopped and took pictures at the Maheno shipwreck and continued north to the aboriginal campground where we were staying for the night.
We cooked a good dinner of steaks and potatoes with onions. Afterwards our group and others gathered around the campfire. Smiley, a 22-YO aborigine, performed a traditional aborignal dance and song. He was dedicated to carrying on the aboriginal traditions. He still went hunted with spears for kangaroo and wallabee. He also taught traditonal aboriginal dances to children on the mainland.
About midnight a group of us walked to the beach, lay down in the sand and watched the brilliant, full moon go in and out of the clouds.
Caught the ferry to Fraser Island. We had a bone crunching drive to Lake Mackenzie with our first driver, a 20-YO Israeli guy.
Lake Mackenzie is an awesome, crystal clear lake with a beach rated as one of the top ten in the world. It was fresh water, so you could exhale and drop to the sandy bottom and look at the underwater world around you while standing on the bottom. Very cool! We would also dive underwater and follow the sandy bottom towards the middle of the lake. We quickly found that the surface was a whole lot further away then we guessed, rising to the surface gasping for air!
After lunch we stopped and took pictures at the Maheno shipwreck and continued north to the aboriginal campground where we were staying for the night.
We cooked a good dinner of steaks and potatoes with onions. Afterwards our group and others gathered around the campfire. Smiley, a 22-YO aborigine, performed a traditional aborignal dance and song. He was dedicated to carrying on the aboriginal traditions. He still went hunted with spears for kangaroo and wallabee. He also taught traditonal aboriginal dances to children on the mainland.
About midnight a group of us walked to the beach, lay down in the sand and watched the brilliant, full moon go in and out of the clouds.
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