Travelling Post 47 - The largest sand island in the world.

Heading South from Agnes Water, as I closed in on my end destination, I stopped off at Rainbow Beach for a self guided tour of Fraser Island; the blog title indicates why it is a place of significance. These self guided trips are an oddity on the backpacker trail, the company I used arranges the 4*4, food and camping equipment then stuck me with a bunch of strangers to journey up and down the island. They gave us a menu and a possible itinerary for out journey and off we went, driving ourselves to and around the island.

The island scenery is not as impressive as you'd hope from a World Heritage listed area, we travelled all the way to the top of the island at Indian Head and whilst the views were good I've seen better in the Lake District. What is impressive are the lakes much more impressive than those in the Lake District. We visited two of the Lakes on the island, Lake McKenzie and Lake Wabby, both spectacularly colourful. The edges of Lake McKenzie are this wonderfully clear-blue colour which gradually changes to a wonderful Turquoise before suddenly dropping off into a deep ocean coloured blue about ten metres from the shore. I saw Lake McKenzie on a cloudy day and the colour was still brilliant, I'd love to return when the sun could show me all its colour in full glory. Lake Wabby, whilst smaller, was also brilliantly coloured but not blue like its neighbour but superbly green. It is a shame I forgot to take my camera to Lake Wabby, you'll have to settle with photos from Lake McKenzie.