A little taste of paradise....

• Last year on the 22nd of January Zara took me out for a walk at the Glenariff forest in Northern Ireland, it was our first date! To celebrate our year together we went for a 4wd weekend on the 3rd largest sand island in the world:
  
  
  
  

• Our journey started saturday morning at 6.45 when a taxi was booked to take us to the ferry, our driver Nelson helped us to wake up with some nice samoan music. We got on the ferry after all the big 4wd's and got a cup of tea to keep us going for the two hour cruise that finally took us to Moreton island. The island is 98% national park, protecting the flora, fauna, sandy coastline, freshwater lakes, wetlands and forests. Moreton is 38 km long and 19,000 ha in area. It is one of the largest sand islands in the world.

• Once landed we met our guide and driver Sol (pronounce soul), so the 9 of us jumped in the Land cruiser of we went to " THE DESERT", a huge dune in the south of the island where everybody comes to experience Sandboarding (or sandeating depending of your skills :-)

• The whole first day was a bit of a rush because in our group there was a family of 3 that were only staying 1 day and they had to be back at the ferry for 3.30, so after the sand boarding we headed to the Blue Lagoon campsite and went for a dip in the freshwater lake, crystal clear and 25deg. water, delightfull!

• Once we got rid of the sand stuck everywhere, we had our first lunch with the group of New Caledonian teenagers that Sol and his girlfriend Isa were trying to look after. Then we went to the north of the island where you can find the oldest lighthouse in Queensland, on the beach track going north we were very lucky to spot a big sea turtle going for a swin after having laid her eggs.