1 Fish 2 Fish (day 2)

Alrighty. Sorry it's been so long since the first part of this post, I was in Melbourne, then the next day was my 21st, and then I've had this horrible fever illness and just felt better today. Soooo, yeah, here's the next day from my spring break trip!

DAY TWO:
We got up nice and early, checked out, and stored our bags before hopping on a bus. The bus took us to a ferry, which took us to Fraser Island, the world's largest all-sand island. From there we boarded the most intense bus I've ever been on. Since it's all sand, the roads are sand. So the buses they use on the island are these crazy 4-wheel drive buses that make for a super bumpy roller coaster ride across the island. Our first stop was Lake MacKenzie, which is made up entirely of captured rainwater and has superfine white sands.

This was where I got to bust out my newly bought underwater camera for the first time (the film from which I still need to get developed). We swam over to a hidden beach and then spent some time drying off in the sun before moving on. We kept out eyes open for dingos, which are normally very common there, but since it was Easter weekend, and there were a lot more people that usual, I think they must have just stayed away that morning because we never saw any.

After lunch, we headed for the famous shipwreck that's there. It's just a skeleton of a ship now, and it's all rusted over so it's like bright orangey/red. We only really spent maybe about 10 minutes there and had to hop back on the bus.

Our next stop along 75-Mile Beach was actually backtracking the way we had come, and stopping at Eli Creek. This is a freshwater creek that has, obviously, a sand bottom, and feeds into the ocean right where we stopped. From there you can walk up a walkway, get into the creek, and walk or float down the current. Imagine a natural Lazy River from Splashtown, and you pretty much have Eli Creek. The water is also drinkable - I had some at the top above stream from where everyone was, and it was really good actually.

Unfortunately from there we had to head back to catch the ferry since the tide went out so far. We headed back to our hostel, but since we had already checked out we didn't have any place to take a shower or change, so we pulled our bags out from storage, changed in the bathroom, and packed a small bag for what we needed that night. Thankfully all the water we were in that day was fresh water so we weren't too gross. We got dinner there and then loaded everything in the bus and settled in for a long 12-hour overnight bus ride.