Day 9: Surfer's Paradise to Fraser Island

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Day 9 (7/18/02): Surfer's Paradise-Fraser Island

We got up early so that we could get on the road North. We changed scenery from the gold coast to the sunshine coast. 

Around 10:00, we stopped at Underwater World Oceanarium. We did things like stingray feeds and listened to a talk about them, the crocodile talk and feed, and the seal show. There was also an underwater oceanarium tunnel where you could see animals around and above you. It was very interesting to see a manta ray from the bottom and see the rows of teeth a shark has. Quite Scary!!

After lunch, we took off for Hervey Bay. On the way, John was wise again by giving us a TV theme show quiz and popping in the movie "The Rescuers Down Under".

After an half hour break to change money and get some food, we arrived at Hervey Bay for our excursion to Fraser Island. We took a half hour ferry ride and got off to a bus/tram that took us to our hotel.

The chaperones on the boat to Frazer Island (Brien Simpson, Beth Simpson, Tamara Miller, Johnathan Johnstone)


Australia tour director Jonno Johnstone and our bus driver Peter Roberts



Fraser Island is the largest sand bar island in the world. It also has wild dingo's that still roam about. I saw one and thought it was a tame dog. I don't think that these dogs have much fear of the tourist. We explored the island a little and some got to see a beautiful sunset. There were 3 restaurants and one pool area that kept us entertained until bed time. I went around to rooms at 10:00 p.m. and found most students in bed already.

In the rainforest with Lauren Simpson, Beth Simpson, and Jessica Smith

Tami Van Prooyen, Jessica Golumbisky, and Abby Haystead in the rainforest

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