Here's some of my favourite things about our recent trip to Fraser Island and Cooloola. Holidays are nice, aren't they?
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| These big old scribbly gums really caught my eye. |
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| I wanted to come home and fill a garden with scribbly gums and banksias like these. |
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| We drove home via Rainbow Beach, where the colours of the sand cliffs were incredible. They were making their own little coloured dribbly castles in the rain! |
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| At a freshwater creek flowing out into the ocean, the dark sand had settled out in the current. |
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| Crabs impress me a lot. |
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| Especially soldier crabs. Who can't be impressed by a soldier crab? |
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| There was lots of rain. Didn't matter! |
Other unphotographable joys were to be had in the form of swimming in the rain at beautiful Lake McKenzie, which has clear fresh water and an aqua 'beach'; the number of fish in the Champagne rockpools, even though they were almost full of sand; having an experimental dig for pipis (eugaries - a type of shellfish) on a car-free beach and finding a collection of jacaranda-purple and apricot tinged beauties; and driving about on the inland tracks and not seeing another soul.
Go there. Not in holiday-time if you can help it. It's a lovely place. But don't forget to
take a few extra plastic bags!
