Amro's blog: spring break (1): fraser and whitsundays

During the spring break we drove up to the sunshine coast. Our stops:

Rainbow Beach (1 night; we mainly got drunk)
Fraser Island (2nights) and
Whitsundays (2 nights on a sailboat) and
Airlie Beach (1 night).

We took a lot of pics, so it was not filter them. I'll plan to come up with a second part, including some videos and more pics...plz give me some time.

Fraser Island

Fraser Island is the largest sand island in the world. It is famous for its untouched natural beauty. Further it is famous for its Dingos -- a certain dog race. Before we were transferred by the ferry to the island, they showed us two movies, and every 10th word was Dingo...be aware of dingos...don't feed dingos...bla bla we saw no dingo at all. Fairly, I should mention that over 50.000 tourists yearly visit Fraser. OK, that should be enough info, if not visit Wikipedia.

Our info map: Very important info were the driving times.

A typical situation: Our truck brimming with everything you could imagine. We called it Mandy...she did good with us.

Basti planned the whole trip and he was our group leader, too. He did very good...germans are the best organizers.

Our first stop was at Lake McKinsey. Only one word: AWESOMEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! The water was so clear. Just to mention, on Fraser you should only swin in the lakes...never swim in the ocean, it's too dangerous... I've never seen such impressing and at the same time dangerous waves in my whole life.

Our first night we spent near to the shipwreck of the Maheno. In 1935 she was being towed from Melbourne to Japan for scrap metal when she was caught in a strong cyclone...and a few days later, she drifted ashore and was beached on Fraser.

Ooops! To this we had to get used. This was not our first and last moments, when Mandy got stacked into the sand. After some strokes , we could always manage to get her out.

On the 2nd day we drove up to the Indian Head. We had a gread viewing point. Pierre, Stina J., Ian and Stina K.

We could see: sharks, turtles , stingrays etc.

On the 2nd night Stina J. cooked us a great dinner.

Our 2 musicians: Ian on the harmonica and Steffen on the guitar.

On Fraser we could see many stars and a lot of shooting stars, too.

OK, it's time for a group photo. On our last day we again went to lake McKinsey.
Ladies: Jeni, Stina J., Stina K., Christine and Lillian and the
gentlemen: Basti, Jan, Pierre, Steffen, Ian and me.
Jan and Steffen (both german) joined us on Fraser.

Whitsundays

Whitsundays is a collective of continental islands (ca. 30) of various sizes off the coast of Queensland; somewhere suited between Townsville and Mackay.

We had the luck to be on a great sailboat with a nice crew (captain and 2 other guys). The ship 's name was Habibi (arabic: my love); the owner's origin is Egypt.

Stina K. on the toilet. Just to give you a slight impression, how it is on a boat: Narrow, narrow, and again narrow. I bumped my head, too many times.