Somewhere over the Rainbow

We arrived in a deserted paradise and checked in to our hostel, Fraser’s on Rainbow. We had a few quite pints beside a barrel full of fire (there’s no better way to explain it). We all got hot headed over the transfer window and with that we went to bed. We had a female backpacker in our room and she was outside the balcony on her phone so when we went to bed we actually never got to see her face…apart from Mike and myself for a brief hello. It was hilarious enough because we started to have a massive conversation with this girl who none of us knew…and some of the lads couldn’t even pick her out in a lineup! We chatted about her favorite tv shows, music etc… We even got her 2nd name! The lads described it being like a blind date episode…if only Cilla Black was in our room J After what seemed like hours of chat, we all got a good nights sleep.

The following morning we decided to head off and see the Sand Blow. Tom described it as being “a fucking desert up in the forest”. It was amazing, miles and miles of sand! The lads tried to sand surf on a buggy board, but they failed miserably!! We took numerous pictures and decided to head down to the amazing beach we could see from the cliff edge. This Cliff edge looked like it could take us right down to the beach as the sand was sloping downward… hell Kieran and myself felt like we could just slide down it and magically land on the beautiful beach! Tom, playing the part of the nagging Mother warned us not to do it but what did we care, we had a buggy board which made us way better than him!!! The lads went down the correct route and we could see them down the beach having a laugh. Kieran started the descent and slid down the cliff…so far so good! I followed and Kieran then went down another mini cliff. A silence followed and I knew that something was up. Kieran was struggling and so was I!! We were quite away from the top of the cliff and I started to feel a bit uneasy about the whole situation. Conor, Tom and Mike had big happy heads on them running and skipping on the beach. Our situation was very contrasting. I was on the edge of one cliff and Kieran was half way down another so we had to talk things through! Kieran decided to dig his way up the cliff by creating holes in the sand for his feet and hands and then climbing up them in order to reach me and eventually safety!! It was tiring stuff, I feared for the guy but his hard work and endeavor was typical of the man, he kept going! This guy is a modern day Rocky Balboa, pity we didn’t have the theme tune!! With Kieran within touching distance of me, I reached out with my hand and he grabbed it tightly and I dragged him up to my level (all the time looking down at the guys who at the time weren’t even watching…how could they not acknowledge me doing my hero thing). Now that Kieran and I were together it was a lot easier. Kieran dug the holes again and I followed suit. We eventually made it to the top and were knackered after this!!

When we reached the lads we went for a swim and took in the glorious sunshine and thanked our lucky starts that we could bask in this delightful day. One of the stranger sites we gazed upon was a car submerged under the sand. After our traumatic day we headed back to the hostel, had a bit of lunch, got haircuts and purchased our Goon for Fraser Island. We boarded our bus to take us to our Hervey bay hostel and hit the hay early enough to get ready for what this trip is all about, the magical Fraser Island!!!