Why I was.. absent

Make yourself comfortable for the story I'm going to tell you. It will be quite long but I try to keep it as short as possible.


Before I start, make sure you went to the toilette.. I'll wait..
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ready?
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OK. 
I went to Fraser Island!


For those who don't know. Fraser Island is an island.. true story
It locates about 300 km in north direction from my place. It's known for the beautiful nature and the Dingoes. A Dingo is a wild dog living only in Australia and most of them live on Fraser.


On xmas we got vacation until 4th of January so I decided to go somewhere. For me as a tough wild guy it sounded great to go on a wild island camping outside and stuff.


So me and some other swiss guys decided to go. Mistake!


Have you guys ever seen the movie FInal destination. In my situation it was the same. we had some signs that we shouldn't go, but we went..


1. Sign: Forecast
Somedays before I checked the Forecast and it supposed to be rainy.. the whole time..


2. Sign: Waiting
As we went to book in the backpackers agency there were some other guys before us, so we had to wait. She said she will only take 10 minutes then it's our turn. we waited in front of the agency for 80 minutes.. 


3. Sign: Bus
When we booked all she said how much would cost the bus.. 140 dollars each this is too much. 


4. Sign: Hire a car
We decided to hire a car. The first agency we went to wanted almost 800 bucks for 5 days.. that was way too much.


5. Sign: no cars left
The 3 other agencies had no more cars left because everybody booked to go somewhere else on new year. Finally we found one for half of the prices of the first one.


6. Sign: manual car
We didn't check what kind of car it was. It was a manual one.. normally no problem but in australia everything is changed so the drivers place is on the opposite site.


7. Sign: Traffic Light
For me it was the most important sign to go back. As we arrived at the first traffic light in surfers it was red.. and it stayed red.. and stayed.. and didn't change.. even when all other cars passed 3 times our light didn't change.


8. Sign: Accident
When we finally were on the motorway seemed everything alright 150 km further there was big crash on the lane so there was no more movement.. we were there for about an hour meanwhile 2 firefight cars and 2 ambulances passed.


9. Sign: Turn
Finally we started to move, slowly, so we thought great we will arrive on time. but the crashed cars were still on the street we just had to turn on the motorway to go back


10. Sign: Off road
We had to take another way to get after the crash and this way went through a national park and the speed was 7 km/h because of all the cars.. after 2 hours in desert we arrived on the motorway just 50 meters after the crash and the cars weren't there anymore..


11. Sign: flooded
As we arrived in Rainbow beach, the town before getting to Fraser, it started to rain so much that the streets were flooded.


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At this moment we're doing another pee-breake so if you have to go to toilette you can go now
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You see there were 11 Signs not to go but we didn't care.
1st day was cool we went with a own 4 wheel drive car to the island and through the rainforest. We arrived at  Lake Mackenzie and because it didn't rain so much we went for a swim. The water was so clear I have never seen this before and the sand was so fine, they told us you can use it as a peeling and we did. We have even seen a baby Turtle soooo cute!
But then it started to rain and I mean really rain. Even before we started with the tents.


I don't care of rain because I got used to it in army so I prepared with some other tough guys while the girls and pussies stayed in the cars.
From this moment on it didn't stop.. 


In this night we have seen a dingo only one. We have seen other dingoes while our stay but my opinion is, it was always the same. I think there is just 1 dingo on Fraser for the tourists.
We have seen frogs too and insects as big as frogs.


2nd Day it didn't stop raining for the whole day! We were driving around went to Indiana Heads a Viewpoint have seen red canyons and the wreck but I think these spots would look better on a sunny day.


3rd Day started like the others with rain. But I was still full of motivation while others were so down that they paid to spent the night in a hostel and not outside. I felt good I even made pancakes =)


When we came back to Rainbow Beach they told us we couldn't leave for at least 3 days because all the streets out of Rainbow Beach (actually there is only one) have been flooded. From this moment on we crossed out the bow and called it instead Rain Beach. After a shower we tried anyway to get off and we finally had luck because we were the last car leaving Rain Beach because in this situation the water level was a little lower.


Finally we arrived at Surfers Paradise and we had the best weather ever! I love showers and washing machines =)


If I could decide to go again, I would! It was great even though the rain! =)


That's one part of the story, There happened a lot of things on Fraser before and after but it will become too long and some things should stay a secret ;)


Cheers