Fraser Island is the largest sand island in the world.....which means it is the largest sand island in the world (made purely of sand.) We stayed in Fraser Roving Backpackers and the 4x4 beast like cars that they gave us to drive around the island were...........bright pink - legend. Sadly we couldn't drive as you need to be 21 or over but it was still the funniest thing ever sitting in the back of the pink monster love machine, trying desperately to hold the bags and eskies and tent bags etc in place whilst driving over the roughest tracks you ave ever seen in your life. It is entirely possible that everyone in the car sustain some form of brain cell depreciation due to the amount of times we all hit the roof whilst sailing over a cliff like formation of sand...all in the name of fun!! First day we got off the barge and drove to Lake Wabby which is about a 40 mintue walk from the beach and although it was peeing with rain the majority of the time we were walking to the lake, whilst we were at the lake and on the walk back to the pink love heart. The lake was stunning, on one side was a forest and on the other hundreds of sand dunes strectching about 5km back from the lake.....so weird. We all swam i the lake because we figured that we were wet already (bloody rain) and it was only when Amey and Emma started discussing the fact that there were clearly monsters in the deep bit that everyone made a rather rapid exit! That night we all camped at Dundaburra Campsite and it was great fun, had a BBQ. Su for us, we finished supper and all felt it was very late and were just hinking about going to bed when someone thought to look at the clock and told us that it was infact 6.30pm......it had been dark for hours - how is this possible??!! Next morning our car had a falt battery because we had the lights and ipod on the night before...oops! We went to Indian Heads and look out over the sea and saw Sting Rays and Turtles but sadly no tiger sharks or whales then we went to the Champagne Pools which is the only safe place to swim in the sea on the island due to deadly currents and tiger sharks...nice! We also went to Eli Creek which is the largest river on the island and walked up it as far as we could, it was the clearest water we have ever seen, stunning!! That night we cmaped on the beach and after supper we lay on the beach and watched the stars, no light pollution at all so it was stars as far as you could see......Amey saw 5 shooting stars in 2 minutes. Final day we all woke up to find Dingoes in amongst our tents, so cool....they are actually really healthy and fit to look at. We all got up really early and drove to Lake MacKenzie which is the real beauty spot of the island. Stayed there fore about 4 hours, including about half ans hour sitting in the car hiding fro the rain. But then it was awesome sun shine for the rest of the time. We all swam and although it was cold it was also horrendously clear and so we stayed in for ages, loving it. Got on the ferry back to the mainland and driving on normal surface was the weirdest and smoothest experience ever!! Fraser Island is like nowhere we have ever seen.......such an amazing place!!