his own island (Fraser Island)

We've just arrived in Noosa, having been on Fraser Island for three action packed days. I have had a rather childish wish to visit my own island for many a year now and I'm glad to say it outshone all my expectations.

For background, it's the worlds largest sand island at 125 km in length (including a 75 mile long beach!) and is the only place in the world that has a rainforest growning in sand. There are a few ways of going over, with self-drive being the most popular, but we went for a guided tour as it worked out about the same price but with no tents... So off we went in a 10 tonne 4x4 truck with the craziest ranger guide imaginable - a cross between Steve Irwin and Shane Warne and Michael Schumacher. At more than one point the only thing stopping me from hitting the roof was my seatbelt.

The first day included lots of walks through the rainforest and swimming in lakes with the purest water in the world. And then it rained (first time we've been in a rainforest and its been raining actually)

Second day included a very long drive at high speed along 75 mile beach, a visit to a cool shipwreak, swimming in rock pools with the waves crashing over us and a flight on Air Fraser Island (it really exists!) This was a bit of a spur of the moment decision and started off as a nice sightseeing flight. We were soon joined in close formation by another Air Fraser Island 'plane, which was very cool. At this point the pilot asked if we had our seatbelts on before racking us into a 90 degree right bank (the plane was on its side) and diving down to buzz our bus at 3 metres (9 feet) and 150 mph. This was then followed by a 2 G pull up (not that bad) and a zero G bunt over the top. No wonder they don't serve any inflight food...

Finally on the third day we walked 1 mile across some sand dunes and bodyboarded down said dunes into a lake. I was very sad to leave to say the least :(

Some Stats

Number of Dingos seen - 2
Number of sharks seen - 1
Number of swims in said shark infested water - 1