Today we made our way to the beautiful sand island, Moreton Island, to start our first camping experience of the trip. We took a ferry from the Brisbane port and went right up onto the beach of the island. The weather was gorgeous, sunny, and warm. As we went to our camp and picked our tents we all got ready to and hang out and relax on the beach.
After a short drive we stopped at a spot on the beach and all explored the beach and the water. The first thing we did at the beach was save a baby sea turtle that was stuck in the sand by bringing him to the water. After saving this one turtle, we saved four more baby sea turtles. Some of us then explored down the edge of the water and found a sand bar that we walked out on in the ocean. Shannon, while walking back to shore, saw a small stingray. After about a half hour we started making our way back to Tina, our 4WD bus, for lunch Christine and myself got dragged and thrown into the ocean by the boys. Needless to say we now have a vendetta against them. Our your guides Nathan "driver" and Eddie had a whole lunch set up for us. While we all relaxed and digested our good before our next part of the adventure we all were amazed by the fact that we were on a beach on a sand island in Australia!
The next part of our adventure for the day was to go sand boarding at "the desert" on the island. We all climbed our way up to the top of the sand dunes, slowly but we did it, to see what sand boarding was all about. We all took turns, some of us multiple times, sand boarding down the dunes. We laid down on a piece of waxed wood and slid down the dune, most of us getting covered in more sand than we've ever seen in our life. There were a few brave souls that even tried going down standing up, all taking some wipeouts, but they tried. Even with the multiple people falling off the board we all had an amazing time trying something new.
After a very long and exhausting day we treated ourselves with ice cream from the general store on the island and a very full filling dinner. Followed by a campfire, roasting marshmallows, star gazing and even looking at the glowing plankton in the ocean. Throughout the night we all made our way to our tents and sleeping bags for a very deserved and needed sleep after an amazing first day at the island that none of us will forget.
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