K'GARI - aka "Paradise"

I had the privilege to stay with Judi for 3 nights on this island which is a paradise, which incidentally is the interpretation of the aboriginal name for Fraser Island. Judi lives at Eurong Beach, and she met me off the ferry at Wangoolba Creek. Enjoy the few photos I have posted. I still have not got the hang of this blogging, so none of this is in the right order! The inland roads- named M3, M4, M5! Yes, still made of sand. What a wonderful trip we had to go into the rainforest, and to a perched lake. Well done Judi for her "rally" driving. No mean task to negotiate the humpy bumpy roads, with tree roots to go over as well. Oncoming traffic poses its own problems. Not many passing places!

A satinay tree. These were logged and transported to e.g. London Docks and Suez Canal, as wood resistant to marine bore. This is not the biggest example of this tree, but the easiest to access and photograph.

Roll the trousers up and get into Lake Birrabeen. It is a perch lake. Look at the crystal-clear water I am standing in. A perch lake is formed over hundreds of years as layers of organic matter such as leaves, bark and plant life settle and harden to form an impervious lake-bed. The collected rain water stays pure and clear.

Looking up through the rainforest. Luckily, no rain for us that day.

These attachments are known as stags, for obvious reasons. Their spores attach themselves to trees and are nourished by the falling leaves from the tree.