Fractured Reality

Fraser Island is the largest sand island in the world. At 1840 km² it was impossible to thoroughly explore during the two days we spent there, and as the tourist industry there has a totally captive audience, the charges for a tour bus trip around the island were rather steep. This, coupled with the desire to be out of a coach for a while, led me and a small group of my fellow travellers to take a walk from our lodgings at Kingfisher Bay to the famed Lake Mckenzie, whose waters and beaches are so pure that they can be used to exfoliate the skin. The walk was approximately a 10km round trip, and it turned out to be the most exhausting day of the three months. The combination of sand underfoot, a few steep inclines, and the oppressive heat made for difficult conditions, and once we got there I really wasn't in the mood for taking photographs. The only shots I did take that day were during the final stretch of the walk, while I raced the sunset down the seemingly endless beach, attempting to make it back to Kingfisher Bay before darkness. As you can see from the photo here, the result was something of a tie.