Ready for road trip; Ingrid, me and Emilia.
We met the other girls, Lisa (Canada), Cecilie, Henriette, Ingrid and Lisa (France), at Roma Street Train Station at 7 am Saturday morning. Way too early for any brain cells to function properly, if you ask me. Obviously, the car had the same thought as it didn't wanna start. We waited for about half an hour for the new car, and as we were about to leave, our fantastic tour guide (Graham), realised we didn't have the car key. After another 15 minutes we were finally on the high way, going north (not south as I first thought) and towards Rainbow Beach. We were happy, excited, tired and you name it when all of a sudden we heard a bang, metal to the asphalt, smoke and dust inside the car. We had a flat tire.
Millie a bit tired of waiting...
Changing of the tire
After another while we were finally driving again. We met up with the other car in Rainbow Beach; a nice little small town with a fantastic beach.
Rainbow Beach
Our first stop was at Lake Wabby and the sand dunes. The lake used to be much bigger, but the wind has blown heaps of sand over and covered big parts of it. Its therefore a mini desert in the middle of the island as well.
The desert or sand dunes
Lake Wabby
On the way back to camp, we stopped at a ship wreck thats been stranded on the beach for 78 years. The ship wreck was cool, but doing gymnastics was better.
Pose ala Cecilie
Attempt-pose ala me
We were both equally really surprised that we could still do the bridge...
And solo
Some parts of the wreck...
After all the activity, we got thirsty and our guide took us to
Eli Creek. It's a river/creek with fresh water we could drink. Very good indeed! After we had refilled our water bottles we could just lay down, relax and go with the flow to the ocean.
The true loves "kiss". Cecilie and Graham
BUT, before we got there, we had some "love in the air", true loves kiss and "we shall marry in the morning"...After a local game, the lucky chosen one was Cecilie. Finally Millie and myself could start planning the wedding of the decade.
Cecilie and Millie refilling there water bottles
Me floating away...
After a long day of beautiful views, swimming, aerobics in water and on land and a long and eventful drive, it was time to go back to camp. We stayed at Dilli Village and, of course, in a tent. We were starving when we got there, but had to be patient and wait for the food as everyone else I guess. For dinner we got, surprise, surprise, a BBQ. They lit the fire after and all of us sat around the fire, ate marshmallows and looked at the stars. Ah, we are so romantic.
The next day started brutally. First of all, someone decided to have a party the whole night...right outside our tent. Not very nice since we were tired and had gone to bed early to be prepared for the next days adventures. And then, really early, it started raining. And as you all may be aware of, when it rains in Aussie-land, it really rains. I kind of like rain, I've decided though. It's nothing wrong with it when it's not cold, right? Just refreshing...
Cecilie "ulykkesuglen' and Miss Vimsy got her shoes filled with water over night. Her towel and cloths were also wet. All of our stuff was perfectly dry.
Morning glory
Cecilie and the tent
Anyways, so we had breakky and started driving towards Lake McKenzie. As we got there, it stopped raining. Fancy that! The lake was beautiful and extremely clear, the sand was white as snow and the water warmer than the air. Just one word: Perfect!
The pyramid. We are such a talented group of girls.
After an hour of so of "forgetting we are still in Australia" we left for the Central Station. Nothing here reminds you of a city's central station though. From old on this is where they transported the trees or something like that. I didn't pay too much attention to the talks. All I got was that it's not McDonald's there, but a rain forest. So of course we got some rain.
A creek going through the rain forest. No matter how much it never change the height of the water more than about 10 cm. 
Lisa and a tree with some other trees growing on it. I think the guide said something about 80-90 % of the living things in the rain forest live of the seeds/plants coming from this tree. 
Very large gum trees
After some looking around and a nice lunch, it was time to start the return to Brisbane. First, there was a tree that had fallen into the road, so the driver had to (and probably wanted to) try to remove it. After a few attempts he gave up and said we could just drive over it. Manly, did you say?!
Bye for now,
Ida
