Today I got up at 7 AM for the free pancake breakfast. I was excited because I hadn't had pancakes since IHOP in Anaheim. This was a bit of a let down. We were allowed 2 pancakes each and the spread choices were: peanut butter, strawberry jam, coarse brown sugar and lemon juice. No syrup? What's the deal!? So I choked down my dry pancakes with a glob of jam and some crunchy sugar with a spoon (the forks were all taken) then went back to bed.
After a longer snooze, me and B headed to the beach this town is named after for some sun and waves. The beach is beautiful in Rainbow and we spent a couple hours jumping waves and soaking up some rays. But the best part was the skimboarding. This is without question, hands down, the best skim spot I've ever been at. The water would come up really thin on the shore for like 25 feet, then kind of hang there for 10 or 15 seconds. I spent at least an hour skimming to my heart's content, then it was back to the hostel for the Fraser safety briefing.
The safety briefing was mandatory before going to Fraser Island and consisted of a chessy video from 10 years ago and a lecture from one of the staff. Then they broke us up into our groups that we would be driving/camping with on the island. We landed a cool crew consisting of me and Brennan, 2 irish girls, a guy and girl from Holland and a guy and girl from Toronto. We hit it off with our fellow Canucks straight away and went back to the sand dunes with them for more dune jumping. For supper, we did the hostel $5 BBQ, which included 2 sausages, bread and 2 kinds of salad. I was actually full after it! A rare feeling with hostel meals. I checked with some staff about getting a new camera in town but they said no one sold cameras, just my luck. I pulled out my camera to pull apart to see if I could fix it and low and behold, the sucker was working! The focus doesn't quite work the same, but every scene focuses (just not specific objects/people) and it turns on and off fine. What a relief, it would have been brutal to be without a camera for the whole Fraser trip.
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