Moreton Island.
There is only one ferry a day which goes to Moreton Island, so I'd better not miss it! Luckily I wasn't running FERRY late so I made it with plenty of time to spare, grabbing a bit of extortionately priced breakfast as I go.
The ferry takes about an hour and half and was totally dull. The only thing keeping me awake was the constant screaming of a child in front of me at the sight of jelly fish! An hour in and he was still surprised at seeing them!? Stepping off the ferry onto the island was like walking onto a shipwrecked island paradise. The island is 98% national park and are no roads at all so any vehicles MUST be 4x4's otherwise you ain't got a chance in hell!
We were split into groups as half were sand boarding first and the other were exploring the beach. We were exploring the beach first and sand boarding just before lunch. Not really much to say about the beach, except it was very beautiful and FULL of star fish! Never seen so many before in my life! Oh and also, fun little fact, green water - good. Dark water - SHARKS! Erm... The shipwreck you see in the photos below, well we're snorkelling that... It's in dark water.
It's official. Sand boarding is AWESOME! It's pretty much how it sounds, you just grab a piece of MDF or something like that and throw yourself down a sand dune! So obviously that's the fast and fun part. The slow and painful bit however is the damned climb back up the sand dune! Walking on sand is hard at the best of times, never mind up a dune! Well this is the worst part until you hit a lump in the sand and get a face full of it! That stuff will take DAYS to get out... I managed 4 runs in the time we had there. Not a patch on the Swedish record holder of 16!? She a damn Olympian!?
Also turns out, holding a GoPro while sand boarding, DIFFICULT!
After rinsing my mouth out for the 100th time after hitting a sand bump, we stopped for lunch at a picnic area just off the beach. Usually lunch on these day trips are really good, this was definitely an exception. We got one little bun and a cereal bar... Whose that going to fill!? So I snook another sandwich and cereal bar! After lunch we were going snorkelling around the shipwrecks!
We wet suited up, goggled up, snorkelled up and flippered up then dove straight into the sea! When I'd previously snorkelled in Fiji the water was quite choppy and hard to swim in, my flippers were also too big, so it was a bit of a challenge. On Moreton it wasn't choppy at all so was really good! We swam out to the shipwreck on a diagonal as the current was so strong, we'd just watched a huddle of Chinese swim out at the beginning but got carried to almost the end by the time they'd reached it! Bless. We then began having a look at the shipwreck and fish surrounding it!
As the current was strong, we just floated through the wreckage in between hundreds of fish, which ordinarily would freak the hell out of me, but it was just amazing today! We even saw a shark within the wreckage! I mean, it's a shark which has no teeth at all, but hey! still a shark in my book!!
(The shark is hidden in there! Not the little duck thing swimming around before the jokes start... It's the yellow spotty looking thing above the duck thing)
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