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2017-10-25 01:01
in Australia, Flying, Nflying, Ntrips, Ozsafari2017, Trips
After Hamilton Island, our next Island was Fraser Island. Sadly there is no airport there, so we had to fly to Harvey Bay (very scenic flight), and then take a bus and a slow ferry, we got there eventually though.
After the nice flights, we took the slow ferry to Fraser Island:
After dinner, we went for a night walk ranger led tour:
Around our eco hotel rooms, there was quite a bit of wildlife: water monitor, snakes, loads of spiders, and birds:
The next morning, we went for a 4WD tour of the island in a big bus:
fresh water lake
the roads are interesting, soft sand makes it more difficult to drive
sometimes it felt like we were on a boat :)
We finished with a nice fresh water stream emptying in the ocean:
We tried to go on a whale watching tour, but after 5H of rough sea, we didn't see a single one, which is super rare, so we got our money back although we sadly wasted a lot of time:
So, we went ona 4H walk in the afternoon. Sadly we spent most of our time dodging mosquitoes and didn't have much to show for it:
lots of snails as tide was getting lower
interesting green worms
Before long, on our walk back, we got our private sunset:
The next morning, we went to see the little soldeier crabs before heading out:
plenty of them
they make a pile of sand and hide under it, they're quite skilled
a army of them
I'm assming they get eaten by birds
Solider Crabs are really fun to watch, here's a video to show you:
And that was it for our last location, Fraser Island.
