Day 22 bye bye Frazer Island- now with pictures!

Our time at Frazer Island has been fantastic, too short but wonderful fun.
We had tried to see the dingos down on the beach on our last afternoon and headed down to the beach to watch sunset, we'd were moments too late, we missed the best colours in the sky and, according to the first lady we saw, we missed seeing a dingo by 2 maybe 5 minutes. Knowing that our best chance to see the dingos was dawn or dusk the kids were awake at stupid o'clock to catch the sunrise, so off we trekked just a bit after sun up!

This is what we saw and followed,

But only tracks.

Back to our villa for breakfast, final pack and to head to the ferry, I kept reassuring Aimee that we still hadn't left the island and we may see a dingo but damn those dingos! we didn't see one. Apparently there are only around 125 on the whole island and there is a huge education program to educate people to keep away from the dingoes not to feed them and so on which has obviously paid off. They are wild animals and unpredictable, especially when people have been feeding them and trying to make contact with them. We discovered that at least three camp sites have been closed at the moment as some dingoes have become quite aggressive.
Our ferry trip was quiet, Aimee and I shed a tear but we have a good reason to go back. We tried to see too much in our one whole day. Next time we hope to head further up north.

we saw this perenti in the garden as we packed

The kids running to me along the pier while we waited for the ferry

You get to drive on for the return trip

A sad girl with her brother, making a final search along the Fraser shores

Once we were back on the mainland we traveled through quite a lot of various farm land areas.

The increased traffic, larger roads/lanes, bigger and more frequent towns (which were pretty) only meant one thing, we were getting closer and closer to big cities and home! I have been denying the idea of returning home, back to reality but realise that if we are to have more great adventures like this, home and work are a necessary evil.
Once again we proved the theory that the shorter drives can often be the longer ones. Our destination today was Burleigh Heads to visit our once were neighbours Tania, Dave, Maddy and Megan who have made the big life change from the hustle and bustle of Sydney to the Gold Coast. It was great to finally see them and the kids loved catching up ( so did the grown ups but it was too short!).
One thing that completely surprised me was the traffic on the motorway, four lanes (sometimes more!) but it was just as bad as the M5 in Sydney (Dave and Tania assure us it is dreadful most days!) and we weren't even on in in full peak hour. Apparently Gold Coast folk are not great on motorways.

But we did have a great time catching up even though it was only short (& maybe we will trek Fraser together in our matching Everest cars)