Look inside, look inside your tiny mind and look a bit harder...

Song: "Guess Who Batman (F You Very Much)" by Lily Allen

April 15th

Mommy's Birthday
U.S. Tax Day

So Day 3 of our Fraser Island tour started out well. Jeff took us to the Dragon Tree, which, well, looks like a dragon.

From Fraser Island

And for the first time in ages, we had blue skies!!

From Fraser Island

Jeff also told us about the scribbly gum trees, which are eucalyptus trees that have little scribble marks on them from inscriptor moths, or scribbly moths.

From Fraser Island

Then we went to Lake Wabby, which was one of my favorite lakes on the island:

From Fraser Island

Here you can see the ocean, a sand dune, the forest and a lake all in one picture.

From Fraser Island

And despite this sign,

From Fraser Island

we did run down the sand dune into the lake anyway...


Glorious.

After the lake, Jeff talked to us about "bush tucker" or "forest food" in American. This berry tasted like oregano, which Jeff pronounced "or-eh-GAH-no" instead of "or-EG-eh-no" like I'm used to. Did you like those phonetics there?

From Fraser Island

Note: My macro mode wasn't cooperating with me (user error) on half of this trip, apologies for the strange camera focus.

When we got back onto the "highway" we saw a plane land on the "runway." Pretty neat stuff.

From Fraser Island

We then went to our last destination of the trip: yet another lake.
It was very pretty. Bernie wanted some "I'm in a field by a lake" pictures.

From Fraser Island

Jeff went snorkeling and looking for turtles while the rest of us swam around. It was really nice.

From Fraser Island

We left Fraser Island after 3 long days there, and took the ferry back to Hervey Bay. The ferry ride provided me with the greatest sunset pictures of the trip.

From Fraser Island

From Fraser Island

From Fraser Island

From Fraser Island

From Fraser Island

From Fraser Island

Yay sunset.

After my crazy picture taking, we took a taxi from the ferry to go pick up our car from the rental agency. We finally got the car! Bernie bravely got us out of town, where we got mildly lost due to my crappy map, and we had to ask for directions to Bundaberg (our next stop) from an Aussie guy outside of Woolworth's, and believe it or not, we got to Bundaberg, no problem. We ran into the world's creepiest bug on the way:

From Bundaberg!

We stayed at Oscar's Motel, which looked sketchy, but not sketchier than your average motel. It actually ended up being one of our best places for accommodation over the trip. The girls were really sweet and let me indulge in my Lost obsession that evening, and then we went to bed. :)