Fraser Island - Post 2

So after Lake McKenzie, we headed back out on the town to the "town" of Eurong which is really just a stop on the beach where there's another resort, a store and a few beach houses. Note the differences between the trail in the 2 pictures below.

The first one is apparently pretty easy to drive on because the sand is pretty packed.


The trail below was a little more scary. The car wouldn't want to grip and I was constantly worried that we weren't going to make it and that we'd have to get out and push. I think that Josh had more faith in the 4WD than I did.


Once we got through Eurong, we were on the Pacific and it was smooth driving. She how awesome our highway was?


I'm pretty sure that Josh was happy to be off of those inland trails and out on hard sand. The only thing that we had to be real careful about was wash-outs which is when the creeks flow from inland down to the ocean. On the safety video that we had to watch before we rented the car, it showed cars getting bogged down from going too fast over these "creeks".

The video said that they could get up to 3 metres deep, but we didn't see anything like that. And we slowed down at every sign of moving water.


Also, the highway was a runway. There were certain sections (about 4) along the 75 mile stretch of beach where there would be cones out indicating that you needed to watch for aircraft taking off and leaving.


I think that Josh and I both decided that we wouldn't want to be landing on this beach in that size of a plane.


Eventually we made it up to Eli Creek. It pumps out 80 million litres of water a day. You can walk up a boardwalk and get in and ride the current all the way down the Pacific (think Lazy Riverish). Our rental car guy told us just to make sure that we got out before it actually reached the Pacific or we'd be taken to New Zealand for free if the Tiger Sharks didn't get us first.


The water was cold (much like Lake McKenzie), but I did talk Josh into walking across so that we could get on the boardwalk.


And here's me with another weird tree.


The water was so clear that it was hard to tell it was even there.


I got in and walked down to a sand dune, but didn't ride the current back down. It felt pretty good on my legs after running the day before, but I wasn't ready to go swimming in 60 degree water.


Back on the beach, Josh made the comment that he's never felt so isolated before. It really is remote.


It was a beautiful day.