The Fraser Island crew

We started the day with a safety briefing, where they scared us by showing news reports about head-on collisions and rollovers on the island. Then they set us loose on our 4WD, but nobody was too keen on driving, for some reason. All our gear was on the roof, and eight of us were crammed into the back. Since Fraser Island is made of sand, the roads are too. Deep sand with lots of bumps. We had to cross from the West of the Island to the East, through the forest, which was about two hours on the bumpy roads. Plus every once in awhile a truck in front of us would get stuck, so we would have to stop and wait for them to push themselves out. On the way we stopped to check out two lakes: Mackenzy and Basin, with beautiful blue refreshing water. After our swims we finished the bumpy drive to the beach on the East coast. A very brief drive up the beach and we were at our campsite at 3 pm. Between eating late lunch, setting up camp, cooking, eating steak dinner, and drinking beer, time passed pretty quickly. I got to know some of my fellow passengers. It turns out they weren't speaking German, but Swedish. Six of the group is traveling together: four Swedish guys, a Welsh guy, and his Danish girlfriend. We stayed up playing drinking games until midnight.