Ok, I was totally right, Dingos suck. They’re just emaciated-looking wild dogs that will wait for you to get drunk off goon and then try to eat your food. Luckily it turns out that if you fill Cam with enough beer and provide him with a heavy, blunt object, he turns into human dingo-repellant.
Fraser island was basically a rambunctious camping trip. It’s cool to see one of these uniquely Australian, smucked-up ecosystems (the island is basically a desert surrounded by/interspersed with rain forests, Cam should have some sick pictures as caminoz.blogspot.com) but if you’ve camped before and been to a beach, you’ve already seen most of Fraser island.
(though rich requests that i specify that the rainforests grow out of the sand…thus making them cooler, i suppose).
So the brunt of the trip was just the experience of careening around a giant beach-highway in a 12-person 4x4 filled with german/swiss/french/israeli/canadian people. On those grounds, I recommend it.
Lessons learned:
- A) In Australia, vegemite doubles as an erotic lotion, and also engine lubricant.
- B) Are you someone who is easily captivated by and drawn towards sparkly lights; of the kind you might see glimmering inexplicably in the ocean tide at nighttime, and thus approach/try to touch? Someone like me? Yeah, http://www.earthsky.org/radioshows/48719/bioluminescence-makes-ocean-sparkle-on-moonless-night don’t do that.
- C) Take precautions to avoid losing your jeep to the ocean (see Rich’s video).
Updated Terminology:
- Scheissen: Shit
- SHNELL(er): Fast(er)
- Schlieffen Schliffen: Massaging someone who is on the brink of consciousness for 2 hours in the hopes of getting their central nervous system to acquiesce to becoming intimate with you. Usually performed by unctuous, drunk American tourists. Rarely ends well.
- The Schlieffen Plan: a stratagem employed by Germany in WWI involving complicated troop movements. Not to be confused with the Schlieffen Schliffen maneuver.
Cam brough this guitar out each night and Rich was a regular goddamn Gordon Ramsey on our trip…so on a personal note, I think I need to acquire some sort of skill or talent before my next camping trip, making me more useful to humanity.
-max
