September 29, 2003 3d Day, Monday

Third day was spent driving up to Hervey (pronounced “Harvey”…don’t ask me why) Bay, Queensland to catch the ferry to Fraser Island. Once we got to the World Heritage Listed Fraser Island (the largest sand island in the world, by the way), we spent the rest of the afternoon actually getting to the “resort”. We rode this charter bus with monster truck tires (spelled “tyres” here) through the rainforest and looked around a bit.


September 30, 2003 4th day, Tuesday

In retrospect, though enjoyable this day was probably the most disappointing day. We did a lot of walking and driving to places that were just nice. We did get to see humpbacked whales swimming off the coast at Indian Head, though. That was cool.

The most memorable thing that happened was the bus getting stuck in the sand on the beach. It hasn’t rained on the island in while so the sand was really soft (part of the reason we had to walk some places was because the bus couldn’t get through). We all (and by “all” I mean the guys, and by the “guys” I mean the ones that weren’t too wussy) got down and had to dig the sand out from underneath the wheels and push the bus. Digging of the sand worked well. I’m a little doubtful how much the pushing helped.