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Twenty Eighth Stop Rainbow beach and Fraser Island
We got to Rainbow beach on the 18th of May we had two night there before we went to Fraser Is. On the second night we got our induction for going to the island off Merv and were introduced to our group along with me, Andy and Tom there was Meggy(English), Brian and Ethol (Irish), Timo, Andy, Malte, Hanna (German). We were the A-team. There were an other 3 groups, the D-team went off on their own but the rest of us stuck together and camped in the same place each night. The B-team consisted of Anna(Finnish), Micheal and a couple (English), Brian and Heather (American), Mickey, his mate and Nicole (Canadian) and Bobby (Dutch). The C-team was made up by Anna (Sophia), Chris, Ceasar (Julius) and Paul (Greman), Dickie, Will, Big Dave, Ian, Vicky, Katie (English) and Mirlo (Dutch).
The first day we had our most exciting and bumpy drive to lake McKenzie, a fresh water lake. The water is actually drinkable and has a chalk white sandy beach. That night we pitched our tents next to the wreck. We cooked dinner and with the intention of joining the others later we started plying drinking games. Within a couple of hours all 3 groups had made 1 massive group around our sight. Chris had introduced a new drinking game Horses which got the party really started, a sing song followed and the rest of the night is a blurr but i do remember Tom lossing my tourch.
The following day we went to the Champange pools. It is an hours walk from Indian head so one of the girls managed to get us a ride along the beach on the back of a ute. After that we made our way down to Eli creek where crazy aussies on surf boards holding on to a rope attached to a 4x4 and liturally getting dragged along the creek.
We pitched camp not far from there where another two 4x4 groups had stopped for the night. One of the groups had Seb and Gary (Mildura) and the 31 becam 50 or so. More maddness insuded as we started to play Horses and again another sing song ("I am the music maahan..").
The following day we were up early to do some van surfing. I got on top of the van in true teenwolf fasion as Andy drove along the beach. We got back to camp, packed up and headed to lake Wabby.
Lake Wabby is a small tea tree water lake that you can swim across and back (although Inearly never made it). Its about a 40min walk from the beach accross mainly desert and Malte decided to run it, in what must have been an at least 30 degree heat.
We made it back t Rainbow beach despite our best efforts to meet a few familiar faces we had already met. That night a good sing song with guitars (the only time my guitar was prpoerly used) and bongo drums broke out with Merv leading the way.
The Following day we made our way to 1770...
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