East Coast Adventures!! JP

East Coast Adventures!

On May 30th, we left from Melbourne on a 6 hour plane ride to Brisbane. In Brisbane, we picked up our camper van and headed up to Hervey Bay for a couple of days. We arrived in Hervey Bay and went to a safety briefing for how to drive on Fraser Island. We then drove to free camping parking lot to sleep before an early wake up to get on a barge over to Fraser Island.

The island runs North/South and we arrived on the West side but were staying in a hotel on the east side for 1 night, so we had to cross the island to the hotel and then headed up the beach for the rest of the day.

 On the Eastern beach we went to a creek that you can drift down on a floaty, 

an old shipwreck...

and a lake called Lake Wabby. First we went to the creek and went up and down the creek a couple of times then drove down the beach to the shipwreck called the Maheno Shipwreck. We took some pictures there and then headed to Lake Wabby. Once we got there, we parked the car in the hard sand and walked to Lake Wabby. After Lake Wabby, we went back to the resort for dinner and then chilled out for the remaining 2 hours of the day to get a good nights sleep. 

The next day, we went to another beautiful lake called Lake Mackenzie. We spent 2 hours there and then headed back onto the barge back to the mainland.

After a night inland we drove for 10 hours up to Airlie Beach. We stayed in Airlie Beach for a little longer. The first night we parked our camper van in a camper van park. That night we got to bed at a reasonable time because that morning we got up and got on a sailboat for a 2 day sail. After getting on the boat, we headed off to the most beautiful beach I have ever seen. Whitehaven Beach! 

First we took a dingy onto the land and then hiked to a lookout over the beach and then crossed the hill to Whitehaven. Over there we played in the water and had a great time looking over the beach. Then we headed back to the boat for dinner and a not so good night's sleep. In the morning be had breakfast and then headed off snorkeling in the coral reef. It. Was. Amazing! We saw all kinds of fish and coral and then sailed back to Airlie Beach. 

And headed back to the camper van park. The next day we went to a dried up waterfall and stood on top of where all the water comes out. After that we went on a jet-ski tour of the inner part of the bay. Now we have 4 days to get back to the Gold Coast and then we’re headed to Fiji!!