G’day all,
Our last day on Fraser Island leaving on the 5pm ferry. We packed up the hotel room and headed for the resort pool for a early morning swim. We plan to head south today along the eastern beaches following a scenic route past various lakes and ending up at Lake Mckenzie before heading to Kingfisher Bay to catch the ferry around 4:30pm…see what happens along the way hey.
Leaving the hotel we headed south along the beach from Eurong turning right at Dilli Village along the Southern Lakes scenic route. This track turned out to be a great adventure past a number of lakes and through some interesting forest. At one stage we had lakes on either side to look out on. Our first stop was Lake Bombabon. We walked down to the lake for a swim only to find the foreshore under water, interesting the signs pointing out no camping and no fires was in the water as was the walking trail sign. The water looked uninviting but instead we climbed a couple of trees that were hanging over the water, this proved to be a whole lot of fun for me, Jess and Amy. Back in the 4wd and onto our next stop Lake Beerabin. This lake proved to be a beautiful swimming lake and we all enjoyed a refreshing swim and play in the beautiful fresh waters.
Whilst the kids built sand castles on the beach a big monitor lizard came down to the beach for a drink and crept up on the girls before deciding they were a little too scary and headed back to the bush. I was secretly hoping it would sheen up on the girls and scare the living daylights out of them.
After about an hour of swimming and sand castle making on the foreshore we decided it was time for lunch and headed to Central Station for a well earned bite to eat.
After lunch we explored the old logging camp climbing up into the 1835 cat bulldozer. Amazingly logging didn’t stop on Fraser Island until 1992. At Central Station we also followed the boardwalk along Woobabling Creek, stopping half way along to climb down off the walkway by scaling a tree down to the cystal clear waters below…it was even more fun getting back up the tree and made for a great video blog.
We completed the walk and headed back to the car for the last 16km of forest tracks back to Kingfisher Bay and the end of our adventure. Arriving there around 4:00pm we made the most of the facilities, blowing up the tyres and giving Bessie a welcome wash with the fireman hose style car wash. It was great for washing off three days of adventure in the sand. Whilst I was doing the hard work the girls were busy checking our the shops and Jessy found the castle bucket I had promised her…I must admit it is a pretty special bucket.
By the time I had finished washing the car it was time to board the ferry and leave Fraser Island for River Heads. Our 3 day adventure has been a wonderful adventure of non stop action , we have crammed so much into 3 days and had an unbelievable experience. We have cruised beaches, swam in beautiful fresh water lakes, drifted down cold creeks on our bellies, refreshed ourselves with a cold ale here and there, delighted in remarkable sunsets, romantacised over ancient sea wrecks, soaked up the amazing history of the place and witnessed some majestic ancient rain forests on a sand island. The 4wding has been spectacular and each experience we have shared has been priceless. We are truly a fortunate family living their dreams and life as they please with the freedom everyone should be able to enjoy and experience…we are indeed enormously fortunate, free and blessed for every special day we are on our amazing adventure around australia…you little beauty!!!!
Bushman Bud…Enjoying Australia