Before I ramble on about my activities, here is a picture of Hayden. He was our tour guide and was absolutely fantastic. I swear he knows EVERYTHING.
and here is a picture of our hard core 4wd that we traveled in the whole trip.
today, we started off by driving to the eastern side of fraser island to 75 mile beach...which is actually only 58 miles...go figure. and why it is measured in miles when australia and the rest of the entire world (besides the US of course) uses the metric system? not the slightest idea.
Our first stop on 74 mile beach was the Pinnacle Colored Sands.
Afterwards, we drove to the champagne pools which are these large tide pools of rock, that, when the tide is high, the ocean crashes over the side and foams and glitters over the rocks like champagne. hayden said it was too dangerous to go when the tide was that high, and we weould have had to wait until the tide went back down so we could get out and drive on the beach.
next, we went out to indian head, which is this lava rock formation that scientist believe formed even before fraser isalnd itself. james cook named it indian head because when he sailed past there were many aboriginals gathered there watching...and of course, the british called every dark skinned native an indian.
after, we checked out the wreck of ship maheno. the wreck happened in the early 1900s. the story is actually really interesting...and i'm too lazy to type it all here...google it, it's interesting.
lastly, we checked out eli creek. this creek is freshwater and runs all the way out on the beach and into the ocean. this water runoff into the ocean is enough to fill an olympic sized pool in 35 minutes.
tonight, everyone who was only doing the 2 day trip left the island :( we had a little goodbye party at the dingo bar.
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