Onwards to paradise

After Surfers paradise we headed northwards, stopping in Brisbane for a couple of hours to see the city and do some shopping. Brisbane is.... Brisbane and does not really have any features that are unique to the city.

Then we went accross the sea (45 mins on ferry) to Fraiser Island which is a island 17km wide by 110 km long and is completley SAND!!!!! no kidding, its all sand and forest. The island in home to lots of different species of animal including wild dogs (Dingos) and over 14 different kinds of snake including all of the ones which our deadly!
Here we stayed in what can only be described as a Shack as there was a million ways in which the crawlies could get into the room, upon entering the room, i was greeted by an ant on my pillow, great! being back to nature has its charms but you don't really want it 24/7.

The next day we went on a 4x4 tour of the island, now when you think of 4x4, you think land rover or something similar, well so did we until we saw what pulled up. It was a bus, ok it was a bus with a 3.4 litre supercharged diseal engine with 16 gears. the paths that it took were very bumpy and you kept losing your stomach.

We went to the otherside of the island where there is a 75 mile beach and saw a old shipwreck whcih had washed up, then we went inland to a large fresh water lake called Lake McKenzie, this was very nice with ultra fine powder sand which would clean your skin (exfoliate). The lake was a lovely deep blue and we all had a swim.

The next day we headed north and stopped just outside Rockhampton which is a Cow town (lots of cow farms) in a place called Capricorn Caves, which obviously has some caves. There is not much to do here apart from visit the caves and get back to nature. The plus side was that they had wild gray kangeroos around the place and when we got up the next morning, we were treated to a fight between two young kangeroos, i took a video of this and will upload when i can.

Now we have just got to Airlie Beach which is the passage way to the WhitSunday's which are a group of 74 islands in the tropics.... The real beach holiday starts here.!!!