Moreton Island Tour

Today we all woke up around 5am to get ready for our big adventure: Moreton Island, the world's third largest sand island.

The day started with a ferry ride to the island. It rained and as the island got closer, we could see that it was enveloped in a particularly large, dark rain cloud. Through the rain, we could also see some "wrecked" ships just off the coast of the island, placed there to create coral reefs. When we got off the ferry, we took a 4WD vehicle across the island to a nice beach spot. The ride was very bumpy and most of the conversations went like this:


Me: Yeah, that is a cool tr--wahhh!

And it still rained.

Luckily and amazingly, it stopped raining and actually cleared up at the beach. Laura and I went swimming. It was one of the few times I've ever stepped into the ocean... and then kept walking forward. The water was a great temperature.

After lunch, we visited a few lookout points and from one, we saw a mother whale and her tiny baby! Bon was very excited about this.

We moved on to the Blue Lagoon (it seems like everyone calls their lagoon The Blue Lagoon, right?) that is filled with tea tree oils from fallen tea tree twigs. Well, good Lord if the water wasn't bloody freezing. Don't worry, Aunt Emilie, I went all the way in even though I think it was colder than that glacial lake in Switzerland. The cool part, though, was when our tour guide waded out to us (not many went in) to give us each a slice of pineapple. It was so simple, but perfect.



The whole trip was great. I just wish we could have spent more time in the water (the warm water), but the ferry leaves at 3:30. Even so, we didn't get back to Brisbane until about 5:30, which is when it gets dark, so I guess we couldn't have stayed any later anyways.

Oh, by the way, the burger last night was pretty good. It had "salad" (tomatoes, onion and lettuce), fried egg, beet, pineapple and cheese. It's a tasty combo, but you can't help but think the only reason why they came up with it is to cover up the fact that the hamburger itself wasn't that great.



I don't think we're going to do much tomorrow; we're all pretty tired... And right now I'm going to tuck into a nice banana bread beer.