Fraser Island is the world’s biggest all-sand island. When I say all sand, I mean it. There is vegetation, but it’s growing on top of white sand. Like beautiful beach, white sand. Fraser Island is a long thin island about 110km long and about 15km wide. The east side of the island has a 75km long beach. Don’t get your hopes up though. You can’t swim in the water. There’s sharks and jellyfish as you can see. The jellyfish will kill you. So will the sharks. There’s dingoes there and if you feed them, they get shot. They begin to get a dependence on the tourists and have killed small children before.
That doesn’t really matter though there are freshwater lakes. I mean really fresh water. They’re beautiful. Most of them are crisp blue and don’t have many fish or seaweed. They’re just perfect beautiful lakes. You can keep your eyes open underwater and see for meters. If you have goggles, you can practically see across the lake. The nicest one was Lake MacKenzie, but I went there when it was raining. I swam anyway, it’s hot in December. I also really liked Lake Basin which is very tiny and a 3km hike to get to. It looks like a crater from a meteor. It’s a circle and only about 150m in diameter.
My friend Mike and I went from Rainbow Beach on the mainland. We stayed at Fraser’s on Rainbow. It’s a decent place. Cool people. Cool staff. Cheap beer. Ping pong and pool tables. We paid around $200 for two nights and three days on Fraser Island. They put us in a group of 9 girls. The 11 of us together rented a Toyota Land Cruiser 4 wheel drive. They took us over to the island to camp and gave us an itinerary. You can drive along the sand there. Mike and I were the only two drivers (though we weren’t the only qualified drivers). You can drive along the 75km beach during low tide. You can’t drive through any salt water. At one point we got caught on the beach during high tide. We had to drive through the thick fluffy sand rather than the once wet, hard packed sand near the water. We almost tipped over. I was driving. I was scared.
Just going from lake to lake on Fraser Island with a bunch of people you don’t really know is really fun. You walk across some really insane plains of sand with big dunes and such. I can’t wait to do it again with some friends.
Every few months there is an event called ‘Schoolies’ in Surfers Paradise. This happens when there is a high school event and all the kids come to Surfers Paradise on the school break. The biggest Schoolies event starts on November 16th and goes right to December. This is the graduation. Each state starts at a different week so there are steady waves of people coming in at all times.
Surfers Paradise turns into an absolute zoo. There are kids running around at all times. They’re swarm the streets screaming and shouting and being quite annoying. There is a large element of fun, especially if you go out, but overall it’s just a little bit much. It’s like Cancun, Mexico but this is Australia. There are tens of thousands of them everywhere. So far we are two days into Schoolies and there has already been about 160 arrests.
There is a large influx of violence when Schoolies is on. The kids travel in gangs of tens and most of them are drinking or are high. Some of them are pretty cool and nice, but many get carried away.
The Melbourne Cup is the largest thoroughbred race in Australia. The entire country shuts down for a day. Actually, in Victoria, where the Melbourne is located, it is a state holiday.
The thoroughbred industry is the 2nd largest industry in Australia behind minerals and mining. It’s no surprise that the country stops for the largest race.
In addition to the thoroughbreds being the second largest industry, the T.A.B. (the banks that control all the cash for trading and betting on thoroughbreds and greyhounds) is the second largest cash flow in Australia. Last year it turned over $20 billion AUD.
In 2007 the winner of the Melbourne Cup was Efficient.
Women wear lovely hats and dresses and men generally wear suits, no matter what bar they go to. It’s very celebrated and it is lots of fun when an entire country is united like that.
I put $20 dollars with some friends of mine on a trifecta (you have to get 1st, 2nd and 3rd). We would have won the trifecta unfortunately due to a human error when placing our bet (silly T.A.B. attendant), we didn’t get the win, even though we had selected the first 3 winners.
Justin Timberlake did two shows in Brisbane on Saturday, October 28th and Sunday, October 29th.
I attended the show on Sunday and it was quite good. There were rumors circulating that Fallout Boy were going to be there opening, though this wasn’t the case.
The tickets to the show were a whopping $150AUD. The floor or V.I.P. section was more expensive and had the luxury of a licensed bar. Beer was available in certain sections of the Brisbane Entertainment Centre.
Overall the show was pretty good. He didn’t rap the Three 6 Mafia part of ‘Chop Me Up’, but he did rap Timbaland’s part.
I must say that that every girl at that show looked incredible. Of course the ladies I attended the show with were the most stunning, (especially this one sexy lady).
As far as stadium shows go, I have seen better. I’m very critical but I have seen hundreds of shows. Stadium shows are never intimate, yet I have seen more intimate shows than that. The band was very good. Justin did a lot of dancing, played a couple notes on the guitar and killed a couple songs on the piano.
His new album is very good. His show was good too. Enjoy the video.
Fraser Island is the world’s biggest all-sand island. When I say all sand, I mean it. There is vegetation, but it’s growing on top of white sand. Like beautiful beach, white sand. Fraser Island is a long thin island about 110km long and about 15km wide. The east side of the island has a 75km long beach. Don’t get your hopes up though. You can’t swim in the water. There’s sharks and jellyfish as you can see. The jellyfish will kill you. So will the sharks. There’s dingoes there and if you feed them, they get shot. They begin to get a dependence on the tourists and have killed small children before.
That doesn’t really matter though there are freshwater lakes. I mean really fresh water. They’re beautiful. Most of them are crisp blue and don’t have many fish or seaweed. They’re just perfect beautiful lakes. You can keep your eyes open underwater and see for meters. If you have goggles, you can practically see across the lake. The nicest one was Lake MacKenzie, but I went there when it was raining. I swam anyway, it’s hot in December. I also really liked Lake Basin which is very tiny and a 3km hike to get to. It looks like a crater from a meteor. It’s a circle and only about 150m in diameter. 
My friend Mike and I went from Rainbow Beach on the mainland. We stayed at Fraser’s on Rainbow. It’s a decent place. Cool people. Cool staff. Cheap beer. Ping pong and pool tables. We paid around $200 for two nights and three days on Fraser Island. They put us in a group of 9 girls. The 11 of us together rented a Toyota Land Cruiser 4 wheel drive. They took us over to the island to camp and gave us an itinerary. You can drive along the sand there. Mike and I were the only two drivers (though we weren’t the only qualified drivers). You can drive along the 75km beach during low tide. You can’t drive through any salt water. At one point we got caught on the beach during high tide. We had to drive through the thick fluffy sand rather than the once wet, hard packed sand near the water. We almost tipped over. I was driving. I was scared. 
Just going from lake to lake on Fraser Island with a bunch of people you don’t really know is really fun. You walk across some really insane plains of sand with big dunes and such. I can’t wait to do it again with some friends.
And here we are jamming at night.
