No updates about the POF guy with a bit of potential, because, as you might of noticed, if you have been following my blog at all, that I have not been on line for a while, due to cirumstandes beyond my control. I will contact him tonight. Let's hope he hasn't run off and got married in the meantime. Like my ex has.
I finally got the opportunity to go to the most fabulous Frasier Island, which is about a 3 hour drive north (if you follow my directions, and don't go bush, Herbert, otherwise, you end up on roads like this....) :-) And yes, that is the sign for the road "Rainbow Beach".
...and a short ferry ride away.
Day break, and the fishermen are out...
Dingos run free....
The Fraser Island dingoes are reputedly some of the last remaining pure dingoes in Eastern Australia and to prevent cross-breeding, doges are not allowed on the island.
Ahhh....aren't they cute?? But, watch your little children...dingos have been known to eat them!
Roads through Frasier Island...only 4 wheel drives around here!
At the cross roads....
Oh, my poor, aching feet!!
Winter in Queensland - ya gotta love it! Wading through Eli Creek....
Eli Creek is the largest creek on the east coast of the island with a flow of 80 million litres per day.
Golden orb spider - look at the amazing color of that web!
Fraser Island is a place of exceptional beauty, with its long, uninterrupted white beaches, glanked by striking coloured sand cliffs, and over 100 freshwater lakes. Faser Island is the only place in the world where tall rainforests are found growing on sand dunes at elevations of over 200 metres.
The Butchulla people are the indigenous people of Fraser Island. There were six clans in the Butchulla Nation . The traditional name for Fraser Island was K'gari which means paradise. The island was named K'gari after the beautiful spirit who helped Yindingie, messenger of the great god Beeral, create the land. As a reward to K'gari for her help Beeral changed her into an idyllic island with trees, flowers and lakes. He put birds, animals and people on the island to keep her company
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Captian Cook first sighted the Fraser Island Butchulla people during 1770. Captian Matthew Flinders was one of the first white men to have contact with the islanders and had a peaceful meetings with the in 1799 and 1802.
Colonization by Europeans caused great conflicts with the Aboriginal people, as the settlers did not understand or respect their bribal boundaries, their social structure or the importance of their enviornment. Land was cleared and agricultural practices established, which, in turn , disturbed the natural supply of food cycles of the native people.
Logging was started on Fraser Island in 1863 and continued until 12/1991 when the island was nominated for the Wolrd Heritage listing. For more information about the history of the island, see: http://www.fraserisland.net/, which is where this information came from.
Bark of the Squiggly gum tree
Lady Lisa's newest hair piece...
A major landmark of Fraser Island is the shipwreck of the S.S. Maheno. The S.S. Maheno was built in 1905 in Scotland as a luxury passenger ship for trans-Tasman crossings. During the First World War, the ship served as a hospital ship in the English Channel, before returning to a luxury liner.
In 1935, the ship was declared outdated and on June 25, 1935 the ship was being towed from Melbourne when it was caught in a strong cyclone. A few days later, she drifed ashore and was beached on Fraser Island. During the Second World War, the Maheno served as target bombing practice for the RAAF and was used as an explosives demolition target by special forces from the Faser Commando School.
The ship as since become severly rusted, with almost three and a half storeys buried under the sand.
Lake Wabby
Lake Wabby is a barrage lake, which is formed when moving sand dunes block a watercocurse, and "window" l akes are formed when a dpression exposes park of the regional water table.
View from above Lake Wabby
Me at the sand due at Lake Wabby
Amazing sand dunes at Lake Wabby
Yes, that is a plane landing on the beach....
Good bye, beautiful Fraser Island!
