Fraser Island is a sandy island that supposedly has more sand than the Sahara desert. Anyway, I went on a 3-day Jeep tour of the island. The way it works is that we were 11 people in one 4WD Jeep and we drove on the beach up and down the island. At night we camped using tents and sleeping bags. There is no guide and so we decide to do whatever we want. Typically, there are several such groups at any one time on the island and they randomly meet and party at night. In our case we were 4 Jeeps that left together.
This is normally a great experience, however in my case there were two reasons why it was not as good as it could/should have been:
1. It was the coldest days in years (+rain)
2. I had a shit group (more about that in a moment).
So we were 5 guys and 6 gals: 4 Irish girls that were quite abnoxious (2 of whom I've actually shared a room with at Bondi Beach, and recalled that as a pretty bad experience), one extremely annoying Canadian girl, and one English girl that was ok. There were two Swiss dudes, a German, Nir and myself.
Driving: 5 people chose to drive, and myself among them. The girls were all on top of the driving at first. But eventually, it so happened that Nir and I were the only ones who drove the second and thirs day (and me doing most of the driving)...
Wednesday: We drove up to the end of the island where there was some very nice views. That was also the point where we lost the three other groups. So we camped on our own. The weather was crap (rained continuously) and for whatever reason there were 7 steaks for 10 people (thank gog the English was vegeterian..). Anyway, it wasn't too interesting to enagage the drunken Irish, English and Candian.
Thursday: The morning started nicely, as it turned out that 2 out of the 4 tents were not water proof. It so happened that those were the tents the girls used, so they were soked and had a crap night. In the morning we checked out some beautiful sand dunes. After that we tried to make it to lake MacKenzie but it was too late so we camped near the beach, and near some other groups (not the original ones that started the tour with us). This night the guys got the crappy tents, but Nir and I made sure that even if it rained we'd be fine. We had a pretty good setup where we used the tarp as both a wind and a rain shield. Ultimately, it never rained... The new we camped near were so much nicer than my group and hence I ended up hanging out with them, which was quite a bit of fun.
Friday: In the morning we went to lake MacKenzie, which was really nice with some whit beach sand. The weather had finally picked up and it was a sunny day! Still, too cold for me to have gone into the water.
In summary, Fraser Island was quite a bit of fun, despite the drunken Irish and annoying Canadian.
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