Fraser Island 3/15/08

Day 3
Still alive!!! Nice campsite last night and yummy pasta dinner. Today we head out to Lake Wabby. We have a hike to get there, starts out thru the rain forest and opens up to a huge sand dune. The massive sand blow of hot soft sand requires bare feet. When I turn around I see a line of others trekking over the dune up and over the hill, all just sand as far as you can see. And just when I get really hot and sweaty and curse the sun and sand-there it is, like a hallucination out of nowhere; an emerald green lake against a backdrop of lush eucalyptus forest. We slide down the dune, chuck our clothes and dive in the fresh water!!! Others are sand boarding down the steep dune right into the water...fun times...This is a dune lake, one of 40 on the island and half of all that exist in the world. We swim into the center of the lake and gaze at all the sand dunes and forest surrounding us.

After an afternoon of swimming we have to head back over the dunes and thru the forest to the truck, as we get close to the end a huge brown snake comes out of the bush onto the path before me, of course it is the venomous Brown snake and it is huge!! get me off this island!!